On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 18:44:13 -0400, Roger Turk wrote:

> Sam Heywood wrote:

> .. > I don't know why the virus purveyors are sending zipped binaries.
> .. > Is Window$ so badly designed that it can even automagically unzip
> .. > and run an attached executable binary just by the operator's opening
> .. > an email?  I know Window$ is very bad and that it is getting much
> .. > worse.  Has it gotten so bad by now that it can wreak more evil than
> .. > we ever before imagined possible?

> The answer to all your questions is, "yes!"

> But even Arachne can do bad things.  Doesn't the default MIME.CFG cause
> ..ZIPped files to be listed unless you comment out all the lines that do that?

> Isn't the default MIME.CFG file set to use PICTVIEW to display certain photos?

No.
The 'defualt' mime.cfg already has all of that stuff commented out. ;-)

---- clipped from the D/L page ---
New users may wish to get a171lite.zip instead.[1,021,764 bytes]
(most of the add-on features are commented out
but can be easily re-enabled as you become more experienced)
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