Hello Thomas, Sunday, December 29, 2002, 2:21:19 PM, you wrote:
TF> How can you ben infected through TB with a trojan? Through an attachment for example. Even from a trusted source. >> And as long as you keep all your mail incoming to text only. TF> No, TB's HTML rendering engine does not allow code to run. Code doesn't have to run in TB. You can download mail from a trusted source, save it to disk and run it from there. And you may never know you have the trojan as a good trojan will not affect your machine until, for example, the time comes for your machine to be used in a DDOS attack. >> And as long as you don't click on something sent to you by a friend. >> And as long as you don't click on something by accident. TF> In both these cases, you have to either actually switch off the TF> Warning feature in TB, or ignore the warning. so, accidents are not TF> really possible, and TB will allow you to open the file sent to you by TF> a friend, because TB assumes you know what you are doing when you TF> click the warning away. I would not like TB to nanny me that far. And there is a good example of a security hole. How do you know your friend isn't passing on an infection, whether it be worm/virus or trojan? >> And as long as you have AV software to make sure none of the above >> happens if you don't take the necessary precautions for one reason >> or another. TF> There are enough people who don't run AV software for email, as long TF> as they run TB. It is pretty difficult to start a received malware by TF> accident from within TB. If you're not convinced by my trusted source argument: It wasn't that long ago that Microsoft distributed a CD to 2000 developers at a Developers Conference which contained a virus/worm. And it was only a couple of years before that that Novell sent out 50k copies of it's what was then it's current networking product also containing a worm. ;-) -- Best regards, Mike mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
