Re: AppleScript and Email clients
Re: AppleScript and Email clients
- Subject: Re: AppleScript and Email clients
- From: Xandra Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 20:27:35 -0500
Huh??
How is it possible for a text-only eMail App to activate a virus?
As eMailer nears its eminent demise, I keep eyeing Entourage - but I
remain very nervous about it's direct link to Word (the prime reason to
use it). This link in itself something of a risk.
For now I use eMailer - anything other than pure text (even VCCards) is
quietly deposited in my chosen folder. Near as I can tell there's no way
to activate anything simply by reading a message in a text only eMail
client. I have to manually open all attachments (which I'd never do
without first scanning)s.
I have Stuffit / and IE set to never auto unstuff anything. My Helper
settings are configured so that all MS office items (word docs, excel
templates - etc. -are "saved to file" (again to the same folder) rather
than post-processed.
I thought this would cover it But you've got me concerned -- how could an
eMail attachment (or inline script for that matter) run without user
intervention in pure-text eMail client.
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.
Alixandra Leigh
AceDesign
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