Re: AppleScript and Email clients
Re: AppleScript and Email clients
- Subject: Re: AppleScript and Email clients
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 17:42:31 -0800
I put it wrong. You had to open the document. Although Word and Excel have
long had a preference to warn you about embedded macros before opening the
documents, it didn't cover RTF documents opened there, only Word and Excel
docs with their creator codes. Someone found out he could send an RTF doc
and Excel wouldn't put up the warning, the doc would just open. Then an
auto-start macro could start up. That has now been blocked by applying the
patch.
But even in that case, you had to double-click the attachment for anything
to happen. You're still safe if you don't do that.
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Paul Berkowitz
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From: Xandra Lee <email@hidden>
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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 20:27:35 -0500
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To: "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden>, "Applescript-Users"
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<email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: AppleScript and Email clients
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Huh??
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How is it possible for a text-only eMail App to activate a virus?
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As eMailer nears its eminent demise, I keep eyeing Entourage - but I
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remain very nervous about it's direct link to Word (the prime reason to
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use it). This link in itself something of a risk.
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For now I use eMailer - anything other than pure text (even VCCards) is
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quietly deposited in my chosen folder. Near as I can tell there's no way
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to activate anything simply by reading a message in a text only eMail
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client. I have to manually open all attachments (which I'd never do
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without first scanning)s.
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I have Stuffit / and IE set to never auto unstuff anything. My Helper
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settings are configured so that all MS office items (word docs, excel
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templates - etc. -are "saved to file" (again to the same folder) rather
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than post-processed.
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I thought this would cover it But you've got me concerned -- how could an
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eMail attachment (or inline script for that matter) run without user
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intervention in pure-text eMail client.
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Paul Berkowitz, email@hidden wrote:
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> the
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> viruses would affect Word and Excel no matter which Mac email client
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> received the email containing them. They find Word and Excel by creator
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> code, just like we all do. If you don't buy any MS products, you won't have
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> to worry about this, and if you do have Word and Excel, then you obviously
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> have Entourage too and just need to get the security patch for Word and
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> Excel.
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Alixandra Leigh
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AceDesign
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