Are the viruses in email attachments a threat to Linux users?

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Saral Sasidharan <[email protected]
> wrote:

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> Hav a nice day if  you are running Gnome or KDE you will have to be careful
> with saving attachments and then clicking on them. If you click on them
> inside of the email client you are still safe for now. Also, take a look at
> the actual name of the attachment in your email client BEFORE you save it to
> disk. If it ends with '.desktop' then you have to be suspicious.
>
> Frankly, there is currently not much of a threat here, but it's just a good
> habit to check the name of the attachment before saving.
>
>
> Saral
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>

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