From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Subject: Re: MIME handling for common MS Windows attachments?
Date: 14 Jan 1999 15:10:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86hfttd3a8.fsf@kramer.bp.aventail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "14 Jan 1999 20:20:57 +0100"
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud2.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
>
> > But to think of the security-cheese that most M$ apps are (e.g. you
> > can exec arbitrary commands from excel)...
>
> Indeed. Whether displaying it automatically or not -- doing things
> that are known to be dangerous without warning gives me a bad vibe.
>
> Most of the other viewers are "harmless" -- xv is unlikely to execute
> parts of the data contained in pictures. The Microsoft "viewers" are all
> infamous for executing whatever you throw at them.
So then I assume we pass -dSAFER to ghostview or ghostscript? Wouldn't
want a postscript attachment deleting, renaming, or overwriting files. :)
I know XV does this by default when viewing postscript files.
-Bill P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-01-14 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-12 14:46 John Cooper
[not found] ` <m37lusset2.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1999-01-12 16:28 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-01-12 17:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-01-12 19:07 ` Karl Eichwalder
1999-01-12 19:37 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-01-15 17:56 ` Karl Eichwalder
1999-01-12 19:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-01-13 7:51 ` Steinar Bang
1999-01-13 9:38 ` Russ Allbery
1999-01-13 14:13 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1999-01-13 15:50 ` Alan Shutko
1999-01-13 18:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-01-14 0:58 ` Russ Allbery
1999-01-14 16:14 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-01-13 17:12 ` Matt Armstrong
1999-01-13 18:16 ` William M. Perry
1999-01-13 15:54 ` Robert Pluim
1999-01-13 16:27 ` William M. Perry
1999-01-13 22:35 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-01-14 11:53 ` John Cooper
1999-01-14 12:51 ` John Cooper
1999-01-14 15:14 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-01-14 15:25 ` Robert Pluim
1999-01-14 19:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-01-14 20:10 ` William M. Perry [this message]
1999-01-14 21:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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