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Re: EMAIL != FTP
From: Mitch Halmu <mitch () netside net>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 15:46:56 -0400 (EDT)
On Sat, 26 May 2001 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Sat, 26 May 2001 10:48:48 EDT, Mitch Halmu said: There's *NO* change in what can be transferred. The ONLY difference is you can avoid converting it to base64 at the one end and then decoding it at the other end. If you haven't noticed, viruses, trojans, and worms are being transmitted just as were compiled, via the *current* infrastructure.
Hmmm, I'm looking at an encoded snowhite message body right now. midgets.scr encoded in base64, and transmitted as an attachment. Can provide you a copy in private if you want to take it apart (but not on a PC, or you'll get a *huge* surprise ;) All others in that family that I looked at were also encoded. Did anyone get a raw binary via regular email? --Mitch NetSide
Current thread:
- Re: EMAIL != FTP, (continued)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Craig Partridge (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Jan P Tietze (May 25)
- RE: EMAIL != FTP Robert Blayzor (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Craig Partridge (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Jim Mercer (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Alexei Roudnev (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Steve Sobol (May 25)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Valdis . Kletnieks (May 26)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Mitch Halmu (May 26)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Valdis . Kletnieks (May 26)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Mitch Halmu (May 26)
- Re: EMAIL != FTP Valdis . Kletnieks (May 26)