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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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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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