From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61503 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Gnus vulnerable to virus? Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:35:40 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134409369 4312 80.91.229.2 (12 Dec 2005 17:42:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:42:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m10035@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Dec 12 18:42:42 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ElreY-0003TQ-W6 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:39:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1ElreU-0000L4-00; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:39:54 -0600 Original-Received: from nas01.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.39]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Elre6-0000Kz-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:39:30 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas01.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Elrdz-0007FG-Q2 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:39:30 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Elrdz-0001zz-00 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:39:23 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Elrbo-0002jd-7W for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:37:09 +0100 Original-Received: from 209-150-60-201.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([209.150.60.201]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:37:08 +0100 Original-Received: from dave by 209-150-60-201.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:37:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 90 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209-150-60-201.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pKPAFbJcDUcpvVl26W2FfIAEaDM= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61503 Archived-At: --=-=-= I have always thought, smugly, that by using Gnus I was insulating myself from viruses. However, when I looked at the enclosed email under NTEmacs, I got a dialog box saying that no known program could open mm.304-VK (actually, the characters after "mm." vary each time I look at the email). This seems like it's a few bytes away from being able to run arbitrary programs. 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