On Friday 05 August 2005 08:03 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
| On Friday 05 August 2005 13:39, Anne Wilson wrote:
| > On Friday 05 Aug 2005 10:55, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
| > > Cool, really. But why all this concern over security ? - If
| > > you configure your mail agent (KMail or whatever) to drop all
| > > html-messages and have a decent spam filter, what's the risk ?
| >
| > And just on the off-chance, PopFile tags and quarantines virused
| > messages on the server, ProcMail alerts me (I seem them in a
| > separate folder) so that I can remove them quickly and completely
| > from the server.
| >
| > Anne
|
| OK Anne, have you ever encountered a Linux virus ? - I'm sure I get
| a lot of viruses as attachments to spam, but who cares ? - They
| won't run anyway...
|
| Kaj Haulrich.
But they could get forwarded to your friends who still use Windows ...
Further Linux is becoming more popular. As the popularity increases, we will
become more likely targets. It only makes sense to be ready before we really
need to be.
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Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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