On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:49:05 +0200, "Nicolai Schlenzig (DXD)"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> The sender can, afaik, not help it. It's sent automatically if
> you're first infected. However - who on earth would open such mail
> attachment? And if doing so... w/o an updated antivira? Beats me...
RFC1341: (June 1992)
Security Considerations
Security issues are discussed in Section 7.4.2 and in
Appendix G. Implementors should pay special attention to
the security implications of any mail content-types that can
cause the remote execution of any actions in the recipient's
environment. In such cases, the discussion of the
applicaton/postscript content-type in Section 7.4.2 may
serve as a model for considering other content-types with
remote execution capabilities.
We knew about the issues when we did MIME. Complain to the implementors. ;)
--
Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
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