On Tue, 9 May 2000, "Steven W. Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just feel intruiged by this message. If you go into Netscape -> Edit ->
> Preferences -> Navigator -> Applications
>
> There are predefined slots in there for everything including the kitchen
> sink. There're even slots for shell, csh, perl, tar, cpio, you name it. If
> anyone *was* to define these entries and then receive a perl program as an
> attachment, and then go ahead and execute such a beast, I betcha we'd be
> in just as much doodoo as all those WinBloze weenies. Right now, for
> purposes of this ILOVEYOU discussion, I don't think their OS did anything
> different than what out Netscape running under linux would do. The only
> difference is that the slots are undefined for most of us.
But it is a huge difference that these are not filled in by *default*, right?
It is left up to the user to hang himself with the rope provided, it is
not the default.
> Let's look 3 to
> 5 years down the road. You think there will be more linux users with those
> slots defined?
Are you saying Netscape will ship with those slots filled in? Or more users
will fill them in manually. If they fill in manually what is the issue?
One can configure most software to be unsafe...
Karl Runge
BTW: if you put: application/x-sh; /bin/sh %s
in your ~/.mailcap netscape will pop up a warning dialog. Unfortunately
if will *not* do this if you do: xterm -e /bin/sh %s
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