You might have noticed I said "by default". How many people do you really think change that setting. Seriously.
Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Landesman Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 7:45 PM To: Larry Seltzer; 'Joshua Levitsky'; 'Thomas Vincent' Cc: 'Full-Disclosure' Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Trojan Horse for Mac OS X Check out Tools, Options, Security, Do not allow executable attachments... Uncheck it. Voila. Still there. Not removed. Just suppressed. And under complete end user control. -- Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Seltzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Joshua Levitsky'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Thomas Vincent'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'Full-Disclosure'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 6:53 PM Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Trojan Horse for Mac OS X >> This technique wouldn't work now because Mail.app, and probably all >> modern mail client. Will not let you execute code from within the mail >> client. >Completely untrue. Mail.app will ask you if you want to open the app just like Outlook Express on Windows does. Actually, Outlook Express and Outlook will (by default) strip all executable attachments before you even get them. They've done this for some time. Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
