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
