>Lars Appel wrote: > >>Yes. Having cleaned several Samba/iX [public] shares from those pesky >>Nimda copies in something.eml, something.nws, etc, I can only second >>what Peter said. MicroSoftware has been "too smart" like in many other >>cases in the past. > >Bruce Toback added: > >Or too dumb. > >There is one report that the newest version of Internet Explorer for >MacOS 10 now being distributed with the upgrade to 10.1 has acquired a >characteristic that Mac users have been spared up to now. > >Starting with this new version, the default security settings are such >that when MSIE downloads a file of type .hqx -- roughly the Macintosh >equivalent to .zip -- the browser automatically decodes the file, and if >it's a program, starts execution. > >I can't remember who said that one should never assume malice when >incompetence is just as plausible, but this now means that the Mac has a >virus distribution mechanism that's every bit as effective as the one on >Windows. Given that someone at Microsoft actually would have had to write >NEW code to do this -- previous versions of MSIE just invoked the program >that normally handles .hqx files, which unpacked without executing -- one >wonders. > Also, MS had added impediments to using Java in the XP version of MSIE. One could get the impression that MS is using its browser to influence software decisions. Frank * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *