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Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 05:21:25PM -0500, Dale wrote |
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>> Well, no Wine here. So that won't happen. Actually, I don't have a |
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>> copy of windoze here at all. Neither of my two rigs have ever had |
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>> windoze installed on them at all. |
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>> BTW, I have been known to open those attachments before. I usually open |
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>> them with kwrite or something and try to see what is human readable in |
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>> there. Most is machine language but there is usually a small portion |
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>> that is human readable. They sent it and I'm nosy that way. lol |
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> The bad guys go after the "low hanging fruit", i.e. the easiest |
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> targets. Years ago, it was Internet Explorer. This also included |
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> Outlook and Outlook Express, which were glorified IE frontends. There |
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> were many "drive-by-downloads", thanks to Active-X (aka "Active-Hacks"). |
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> MS has gotten its act together on IE, so the bad guys are now going |
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> after other stuff. The "other stuff" is cross-platform stuff like Java |
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> and Javascript and Adobe Acrobat and Flash (known affectionately as |
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> "Schlockwave Trash"). So yes... it can happen here. |
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> I've been Java-free for years. I use Noscript and Flashblock on |
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> Firefox. I keep Opera around for those sites that don't work on |
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> Firefox. I also use mupdf instead of the bloated Acrobat Reader |
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> monstrosity. |
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Questions. Can a virus infect the OS when running on Linux through |
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java/javascript/flash? Or would the infection at the least be limited |
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to that user? |
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How is html5 going to affect this? Better or worse? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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