On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 14:33, Eric Huff wrote: > > My daughter gets her email through Mozilla on windows98. She > > carefully deletes everything that she doesn't recognise as genuine > > > > mail. She runs antivirus and keeps it up to date. Still she > > keeps getting virused emails in from the people who are on a > > mailing group that she must use - the av software tells her it's > > there, but it's too late. They can't fully activate, of course, > > under Mozilla, as they can't launch the appropriate M$ apps to do > > > > but they still manage to corrupt several files each time. > > Hi Anne, > > I don't understand how she gets them on mozilla. i thought mozilla > was smart enough not to run stuff w/o permission? > > What are the virii taking advantage of? Is it an html issue? > > eric
There are virii that use Java, Javascript, Flash, you name it, and then there's the evil code masquerading as something innocuous. The issue here is architectural -- the OS bases execution decisions on nothing more than the file name suffix, then executes code with full privileges to do whatever it wants. Mozilla on Windows is better than IE on Windows, but it's still building castles in a swamp. "When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Son, the strongest castle in all of England." -- Monty Python and The Holy Grail -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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