Klarinet Archive - Posting 000009.txt from 1999/05

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music programs
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 12:02:40 -0400

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
> I have received this file numerous times in e-mail, but it always
shows up
> as a text message of gibberish, rather than saving as an executable
file.
> It never shows up in a file search. Executable files my sister sends
me
> sometimes show up this way, too. I presume that this means I am not
> getting actually infected, but I would like to know why. Mark???

Depends on how sophisticated your mail client is. Some automatically
create an attachment _ready_ for execution, some don't.

No mail client (or web browser) should ever be configured to
_automatically_ open up an executable, document, or whatever; only plain
text is really safe. If you click on (let's say) a Word document on the
Internet and Word starts up without asking you - _turn this god-forsaken
misfeature off in your browser!_ It means you've turned control over to
someone else - and you probably don't have any idea who it is!

The Micro$oft browsers have "security" zones; it's best to set up high
security everywhere unless you _really, really_ trust them. I don't know
about the PC versions of Netscape, but I don't see that feature on the
Linux version.
----
Mark Charette@-----.org/clarinet
"Cards by Aimee", http://www.sneezy.org/Aimee
"The phenomenon is too variable for proper study" often
translates from "I don't know how to get musicians to do
anything twice the same" - A. H. Benade

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