Doug Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 07:05, john wrote: > john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Exactly what is WINMAIL3.DAT? > > Can't help but be suspicious about unwanted attachments these days.
WINMAIL.DAT is an attachment that a Microsoft mail client attaches to an outgoing email. It is only visible when the recipient email client is not capable of rendering Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF) data. The file contains RTF information, typically font names, styles, sizes, etc. To a MS mail client it appears as a 'fancy' looking email -- not plain text. To non-MS mail clients it will appear as a binary or UUENCODED file attachment. I don't know of any exploits using WINMAIL.DAT but since I run Solaris I don't really pay attention to Windows exploits.. BTW, the sender of these emails can *prevent* this from happening by finding and unchecking the option that is usually named something like: "Always Send To This Recipient In Rich Text Format". 73, -Doug, W7KF ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe drakelist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Zerobeat Web Page: www.zerobeat.net - sponsored by www.tlchost.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------
