And we all certainly know that Windows is so secure. I am by no means a Linux or Windows fanatic, they each have their strong spots.
And I find this thread a little off topic, totally not related to Asterisk or VoIP/phone systems. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Heiney > Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 10:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] MS Outlook > > Go back to your cave. > > On your way, don't forget to patch sendmail (twice in the last 30 days), > OpenSSH, gtkhtml, and pam_smb..... Just in the last month. Linux. > Security. Made for the Internet. Made for the cave. > > > Regards, > > Sean > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven > Critchfield > Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 3:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 15:30, Sean Heiney wrote: > > Actually, MS Outlook by default blocks all executables. I'm not sure > > why there is so much negativity around the Outlook client. Perhaps we > > > should all go back to the cave and use Pine. > > I'll assume you don't understand the english words you just wrote well > enough to defend yourself. Outlook does not block executables. It > receives them via mail like any other mail message. It by default > doesn't run executables that are sent as executables. But we all know > about the current stupidities of Microsoft in that they look at the mime > header to determine if it is safe to use the file(wav, mid, txt, > whatever that should be a data file), but then executes the file so that > they can use a shortcut to whatever app you defined to run that data > file with. The problem being that they package exe files with a mime > header for one of those innocuous files and the executable shortcut runs > the virus. Not to mention that Outlook is set to by default to display > HTML email and that a HTML mail with an embedded link to the "data" file > inside will cause automatic running of the virus. > > So Outlook is not going to block the attachment from taking up residence > on your drive. Outlook has poor security checking, and can be easily > tricked into doing evil things. > > Microsoft recently stated themselves that Windows is not designed to sit > on the internet out of the box, but requires a fair amount of hardening. > This applies to all their other software as well as it is all tightly > integrated. Admit it, Microsoft has been patching crap software for a > long time. Linux had an advantage of not caring about market share and > trying to do things the right way. Linux also grew up after the internet > was around and while it was gaining popularity therefore it has had to > grow up in a rough neighborhood and keep itself hardened. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven > > Critchfield > > Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 2:10 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 13:42, Brian West wrote: > > > I second that... I have received a load of virii from people on this > > > > list.. > > > > > > Received: from torch.junct.com (sootbox.junct.com [65.168.64.10]) > > > by www.bkw.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h8MIcEJ06998 > > > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:38:14 -0500 > > > Received: from wdxmvur (unknown [207.41.124.63]) > > > by torch.junct.com (Postfix) with SMTP > > > id 461DF4159; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:37:08 -0500 (CDT) > > > > For those of you that have no reason whatsoever to receive windows > > executables, here is a procmail rule that matches the beginning of a > > windows executable no matter what it is named. > > > > # Base 64 encoded windows executable > > :0B: > > *TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA > > AA > > AAAAA > > > > > > You can use this and deliver the mail wherever you want to. This works > > > on the last Sobig, klez and the Swen virus so far. This is what I had > > in my virii folder to test it against. > > > > -- > > Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > -- > Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
