mail viruses

[Alex Snow]

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yeah I kinda like all these viruses. I've started collecting them ina 
directory on my linux box in case I need them later.
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 
at 06:54:34AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> I don't wanna sound cocky or any of that, but if Linux were used to
> run the mail client most of this would *NEVER* happen.  The "zip bomb"
> sounds interesting though; Linux users could be affected by this too
> if they go off and blindly unzip the thing without previwing it
> first.  I generally like to list the contents of zips and tarballs for
> that reason; not so much it might be a bomb but I want to know what
> directory things are going to be dumped into.  Most tarballs create
> their own directory where most zips don't.  But either one could
> sprinkle themselves into multiple directories all they want.
> 
> Of course, somebody could stick a shell script or perl program or even
> a linux binary and if you go off and run it without knowing what it
> is, well.....  Again another plug for not doing day to day things
> while logged on as root.
> 
> If you *MUST* use a windows mail client, use one that doesn't support
> active content, that putrid HTML mail.  Or at least some way to turn
> off active content.  And most important, DON'T OPEN ATTACHMENTS when
> you don't know where they came from and why.
> 
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