dman84 wrote:
> 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
> 

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109249


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