Matt Holgate wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I viewed a message (in the preview pane) which it turns out > was infected with the BadTrans virus and my virus checker sprang into > life, popped up a warning and quarantined the infected file. > > It seemed that the file was located in: > > c:\documents and settings\matt\local settings\temp > > The message itself was empty (I don't think it had a text/plain section, > but just the MIME part containing the infected file). My concerns are: > > 1) Was this just the result of mozilla saving a temporary file > containing the attachment which caused the virus killer to detect the > virus, or was the infected file actually executed? > > 2) If attachments are not automatically executed, is this still the case > when there is no "message" section (i.e. the attachment is the only MIME > part). > > 3) Is it really necessary to save a temporary file just to view a > message (i.e. without manually saving the attachment). > > I'm using Mozilla 0.9.9 on Win 2K (great work BTW - beats OE etc. hands > down). > > Matt. >
I believe someone just checked in a fix in tonight so it should be in tomorrows builds where mozilla will just use an attachment and not open it like so.. -dman84
