Re: AppleScript and Email clients
Re: AppleScript and Email clients
- Subject: Re: AppleScript and Email clients
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 14:39:48 -0800
On 1/3/02 2:25 PM, "Phi Sanders" <email@hidden> wrote:
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1: It's not just .exe files - they were/are VB script files and various
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other exploits that execute on merely being viewed by the user, without
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requiring an attachment being manually launched.
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2: If M$ decides to put VB script into entourage as a marketing strategy,
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would you believe that it was more secure than the windows version?
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Simply because it is on the Mac and written by Mac-friendly authors
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doesn't make it safe. Take the security breach in IE for X as a prime
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example. (Not to mention how often it crashes, including 3 of the 4
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kernel panics I've had since 10.0 was released)
There's no VB in Entourage. But you're correct here: there is a "security
patch" to prevent a VB macro operating on Word and Excel in the way that you
say. However, those patches are for Word and Excel, not Entourage: the
viruses would affect Word and Excel no matter which Mac email client
received the email containing them. They find Word and Excel by creator
code, just like we all do. If you don't buy any MS products, you won't have
to worry about this, and if you do have Word and Excel, then you obviously
have Entourage too and just need to get the security patch for Word and
Excel.
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Paul Berkowitz