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:
> > > -- > 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 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
