On 15/10/2004 at 8:49:38 PM, Bob Morris, [BM] wrote: > My registration e-mail arrived this morning and I viewed in from the > Ticker. Immediately after I got a pop-up window thanking me for > registering The Bat! On checking I see that my name and serial > number now appear under Help - About and I no longer get the > reminder message about registering when I start The Bat! all with no > action by me other than reading the e-mail.
> I am a little concerned that merely viewing a text e-mail can > trigger the registration process without any intervention by me. This is peculiar only to the registration message. TB! doesn't do anything else like that. :) > One of the things that I loved about The Bat! was that unlike some > other e-mail clients scripts or other processes could not be run > automatically just by viewing a message. Has this now changed? No. > Has The Bat! lost its main security advantage and will other > malicious scripts also now run merely by opening an e-mail? No. > If I was to forward this message to someone else with an > unregistered copy of The Bat! would it also automatically register > their copy in my name? (I'm not planning on doing so - just curious > about the implications of allowing a text e-mail to trigger > something like this.) Yes. This is why you shouldn't forward it to someone else. Additionally, forwarding it to someone else without the automatic registration upon opening the message, will not prevent them from doing so manually. :) > I notice that the registration e-mail also instructs that the > message should be printed (obviously sensible) _AND_ backed up to a > floppy disk or writeable CD in case I need to reinstall The Bat! > Does this mean that the registration details will no longer be able > to be entered manually as in the past? No. > If this is the case will a copy of the message in TXT format be > sufficient, or does it need to be saved in some more exotic format > to preserve the "hidden" trigger to activate the program? Presumably > since the original message was text, a TXT copy should be > sufficient? As far as I can see, a text copy should be sufficient. I don't see any special header information there that you'd need to save. > On checking further I find that the latest Help File actually does > mention the automatic registration procedure (I got so used to the > Help file being several version out of date that I hadn't looked > there). It also does mention manually entering the details by a cut > and paste if the message was received in another E-mail client, so I > guess that answers that part of my question. > I'm surprised that no one else has commented about this. I have other software that does similar things. You open the registration window and you copy the serial number from the e-mail message. You go to paste it in the serial number entry field only to see that it's already there. -- -= Allie =- ..... ... I'll be Bach. - Johann Sebastian Schwarzenegger __________________________________________________ The Bat!� v3.0.1.33 - IMAP mail ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
