And it came to pass that Geraint Edwards wrote:
> Earlier today I received an infected message in 0.9.6 on
> Linux - not knowing it was infected I 'previewed' the
> message.
>
> I was rather alarmed to see a popup window appear asking me
> to save a file
>
> I wonder what would have happened if I had previewed/read
> the message on my Windows box with the appropriate mime-type
> plugin installed. I have decided not to try it, just in
> case.
>
> Is Mozilla at risk to this type of virus?
>
> Geraint
>
No. The SAVE dialogue will not result in infection. If you
save the file to disk, you are STILL not at risk. It is only if
you RUN the file that you become infected.
And Mozilla did not RUN the file, so there's no problem.
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}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( Dionysian Reveler
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