Klarinet Archive - Posting 000053.txt from 1999/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music programs
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 04:02:01 -0400

*Some* kinds of text seem to be safe. Are there any Acrobat viruses yet?
Roger S.

On Sat, 1 May 1999, Mark Charette wrote:

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