Re: Making Gnus more worm-safe

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au> writes:

> Stupid! gs has had the -dSAFER option for how many years now?

Well, I think that Word actually has a working option to turn off
macros now, but what no (almost no?) windows mailers have is a way to
run programs differently from a mailer than from the desktop.  Every
windows mailer I've seen just passes it off to ShellExecute (or
whatever that windows call is), completely ignoring mime type and
running it just as if it were a trusted file.

Windows users think this is actualy a good idea.

> I am under the impression that the software manufacture in question
> doesn't care about security issues like this, or it would have been
> fixed by now.

Well, duh!

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