On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:22:02PM +0100, Dave Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 04:56:04PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > According to F-Secure Web site, this is a virus that exploits > > a flaw in Internet Explorer, and by extension mail readers > > that use it, such as Outlook. No surprise there! The only > > surprise to me is that 250k infected file which appeared > > in my c:/tmp. What kind of things does Mutt park there, > > and where could that big file have come from?? Surely Mutt > > would not have uncompressed anything without telling me...? > > Are you reading over imap or pop? If so, perhaps mutt caches > the mails locally for speed?
POP3 with fetchmail. > Or perhaps part of the mail was Transfer-encoded, and mutt > needed to save a temporary copy for decoding? But that would in no way involve "executing" the file, correct? That's my only concern. Tom -- Dr. Thomas Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institutszentrum Schloss Birlinghoven mobile +49-171-408-5784 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft work +49-30-8109-9027 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany fax +49-2241-144-1408
