From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/30786 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Shutko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Making Gnus more worm-safe Date: 08 May 2000 09:57:56 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87hfcdwnwi.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167272 10300 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:27:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:27:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE0D2D051F for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 10:00:47 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAB11587; Mon, 8 May 2000 09:00:46 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 08 May 2000 08:59:38 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA29633 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 08:59:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from bkupmail.cv.net (bkupmail.cv.net [167.206.112.44]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C981BD051F for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 09:58:23 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from s1.optonline.net (s1.optonline.net [167.206.112.6]) by bkupmail.cv.net (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA09395 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 10:00:03 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from hunt108-151.optonline.net (hunt108-151.optonline.net [167.206.108.151]) by s1.optonline.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA01218 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 09:58:17 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from ats@localhost) by hunt108-151.optonline.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA02338; Mon, 8 May 2000 09:58:17 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: ats set sender to ats@acm.org using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody In-Reply-To: Brian May's message of "08 May 2000 10:15:48 +1000" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.6 Original-Lines: 23 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30786 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30786 Brian May 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! -- Alan Shutko - In a variety of flavors! 187 days, 1 hours, 38 minutes, 55 seconds till we run away. Oppernockity tunes but once.