Re: OE6 Msg. Source button reads text attachment

From: FromTheRafters (!0000@nomad.net)
Date: 07/18/02 

From: "FromTheRafters" <!0000@nomad.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:32:16 -0400

"Ron Aldo" <reply@newsgroup.please> wrote in message
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> "Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@nospam.wta.att.ne.jp> wrote in message
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> | "John Roth" <johnroth@ameritech.net> wrote in message
> | news:uj8olbg00eb13e@news.supernews.com...
> | >
> | > "Ron Aldo" <reply@newsgroup.please> wrote in message
> | > news:ah1han$rgn$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
> | > >
> | > > Does that mean the message source button would try and read an
> | > > attatchent disguised as .txt document with a double extention?
> | >
> | > No try about it. It would read it - but you would see the source
> | > as it came over the wire, not any attempt to display it or execute it.
> |
> | That is half-true. The message source button is supposed to present the
> | source as it came over the wire. Usually it does what it is supposed to.
> | However, I've had exceptions. When I report spams to ISPs, I click in the
> | displayed message source, select all, and copy, then paste into a new
> | message. Sometimes it doesn't copy the entire message source, because the
> | message source button didn't do what it was supposed to.
> |
> | Wherever the failure is, does it provide an exploit that virus writers
> could
> | use? Only the black hats know for sure.
> |
>
> Oh great. I hope I havent given them any ideas!

Maybe you will receive 'honorable mention' in someones
next effort. ;-)

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