Re: Melissa Virus

[Sam]

Russ Allbery writes:

> Paul Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Hmmm, Windows has the ability to write a script that ANYONE can run that
> > will delete the disk.  Hmmm.  Why should a Word Processor EVER have the
> > ability to make system calls?
> 
> I assume you've deleted vi and emacs from your system?  After all, they
> allow system calls.  Hell, so does ed.  pico allows shell escapes.  What
> *do* you use for an editor?

Right.  But neither, vi, emacs, nor ed are setuid to root.


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Sam