Re: Melissa Virus

[Russ Allbery]

Bruno Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> This isn't the same thing. They don't run commands imbedded in the the
> documents.

emacs does.

> These kind of programs can have problems. And people need to be careful
> viewing stuff with them. Also people need to be careful when writing
> mailcap entries since those can have unexpected things happen when
> special characters appear in file names or other strings passed to the
> programs they run.

Right.  That's sort of my general point.  The mailcap bit is probably a
slightly better illustration of it.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>