Did you read the bottom? These are all old versions.

   - Mozilla Firefox versions prior 1.5.0.5
   - Mozilla Thunderbird versions prior to 1.5.0.5
   - SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.0.3

I don't want to make this into a big deal. But this is an over reaction,
IMO.

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2009/3/2 yyyc186 <[email protected]>

>
> I never said your Linux box bets infected, I said
>
> " I gave up on the Mozilla Thunderbird email because there were just
> too
> many viruses for it that could work no matter what platform you ran
> on. "
>
> Your email client itself gets "infected".  This is completely
> different than boot sector or other type OS-specific virus.
>
> Since you chose to sit back, put your fingers in your ears and humm
> real loud when they were mentioned here are a couple which took less
> than 10 seconds to find via ASK.com.
>
> http://casescontact.org/alerts/110058
> http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28012
>
>
> On Mar 2, 10:05 am, Roy Charles <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Sounds like fear mongering to me. You can pass on viruses in Linux but
> > I have never heard of anyone contracting one. I have used Linux for
> > many years without any virus protection and I do lots of email.
> >
> > Basically I don't care about spreading Windows viruses. Anyone who
> > uses Windows deserves what they get, IMO. Likewise in Linux if you are
> > stupid enough to run as root or give a virus access to your root
> > partition then you deserve it.
> >
> > I would like to see this substantiated before we start sending
> > messages promoting fear. Show me evidence of a Linux user being
> > infected through using Thunderbird and you will get my attention.
> >
>
> >
>

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