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ndoubtedly there are more technically detailed stories about this "flaw" in
Eudora. However, I'm wondering just how serious this issue is. It says that
if someone receives an attached file with an email and they run it, the
file could do damage. Well, of course it could. This isn't news. There must
be more to this.
Note that the Mac version of Eudora is not affected by this "flaw".
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Flaw Found in E-mail Program
By Michelle Koidin Associated Press Writer Friday, August 7, 1998; 6:22
a.m. EDT
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Eudora, the most widely used program for sending and
receiving e-mail over the Internet, has a security flaw that could enable a
hacker to ruin data or plant a virus on computers that run the software.
The security breach came to light Thursday, a little more than a week after
flaws were revealed in two other popular e-mail programs, Microsoft's
Outlook and Netscape's e-mail client that comes with its Communicator suite.
A Eudora user reported the bug earlier this week, according to San
Diego-based Qualcomm Inc., which produces the software.
Someone could send Eudora users e-mail with attachments that could erase
files on the recipient's hard disk or plant a virus, said Matthew Parks,
manager of Qualcomm's Eudora product line.
The flaw would be triggered when the user clicked on a hostile hyperlink in
the e-mail. Instead of linking to a Web page, the action would execute the
attached file, which could then do the damage.
``There's been no report of instances of anybody losing data from this
problem,'' Parks said Thursday. ``Within two days of hearing about it, we
actually will have the problem solved.''
Qualcomm planned to release a ``patch'' on its Web site today that users
may download to fix their software.
The flaw affects Eudora 4.0 and 4.0.1, as well as 4.1, which is being
circulated in test form, operating on the Windows platform. Earlier
versions of Eudora are not affected, nor are Macintosh versions. Market
researchers estimate that there are 18 million copies of Eudora in use.
Barry <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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