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Re: Email
From: Ake Nordin <rootmoose () telia com>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 13:54:55 +0100
At 04:04 2004-02-04 -0800, you wrote:
I'm by no means a security expert nor do I want to be, but while I read this list at 3 am my mind wanders and I wish for someone from experience to explain to me why any virus can infect any mail server / user when those administrating a mail server can make a mail server handle mail in the manner I pasted a snippet of from my own in-box.
The text for human consumption retained below was in the mail from the outset, it has not been "transformed" to something "harmless" by any intermediate mail relay. It's just the beginning of a plain MIME BASE64 encoding, your favorite mail client is all too well ready to decode it back into executable format and run it, should you decide to click on the attachment in the mail.
The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment.
Regards, -- . /Ake Nordin +46704-660199 rootmoose () telia com Duston Sickler: "There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't." _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html