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mail trojans in linux
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- Subject: mail trojans in linux
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:57:47 +0200 (IST)
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Hi
I saw the following news item in linux today:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-09-07-008-20-SC
The story (from VNUnet) is about a new linux trojan. A quote from it:
The so-called Remote Shell Trojan spreads through email as well as
replicating itself across the infected system
Is there any linux mail client that doesn't make it hard to execute
executable attachments from mail messages? (and if so: why is anybody
using this mail client?)
If not: are such trojas an issue at all?
[ Please avoid making this an ms-bashing thread. I hope linux program
authors have learned from the design mistakes of Apple and MS with respect
to this specific issue. A mail client should allow the user to "view" a
document, not "open" it. Or at least it should make a very clear
seperation between the two. The basic design of apple, extended by MS to
mail clients, does not have this distinction. OTOH unix has long had
mailcap. ]
--
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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