On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 19:30 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sander wrote: > > > And how is the user going to differentiate a well composed document that > > appears to > > come from an unknown and malicious source from one coming from a known > > source? > > i) Call everything from AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Hotmail, Juno, and two or three > other domains hostile documents. > > ii) Check the headers for all other domains. > > >What percentage of your mail comes with a s/mime or pgp signanature? > > In 1996, I received more messages, both numerically, and as a percentage > of my total email, that was signed with PGP, than I do now.
In practice I have never inadvertently installed a virus even though I get a lot of mail including quite a lot of spam. I have on occasion deleted a good mail I shouldn't have. It seems pretty obvious from the sources which is good and which is probably bad. If in doubt I check it out. On linux the default is generally to make you put in the root password before doing anything that might be remotely dangerous. It can be a slight irritation at times but on balance that is probably a price worth paying to have a virus free machine and not have to shell out on anti-virus software. Ian -- www.theINGOTS.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.opendocumentfellowship.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
