full-disclosure - AW: 9/11 virus

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From: psz at maths.usyd.edu.au (Paul Szabo)
Subject: AW: 9/11 virus

Ralf <ralfml@...ray.com> wrote:

> Hmmm, a UI poping up stating that the user is going to execute something 
> and this may have a security impact (such as Eudora 5 does) ...

Bad example: Eudora is buggy, including execute-any-code (without warning
of course :-). For details please see

  http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/securepc.html#Eudoraxx

Cheers,

Paul Szabo - psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au  http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics  University of Sydney   2006  Australia