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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: KMail and WINE integration - virus
From:       Luis Pedro Coelho <luis_pedro () netcabo ! pt>
Date:       2002-10-24 15:57:54
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Em Quinta, 24 de Outubro de 2002 14:01, Daniel Naber escreveu:
> We show a dialog for *any* attachment. 

Was this a design decision? I always thought it was "we don't have time to 
implement an intelligent policy now and better safe than sorry."

I think kmail should not warn on every attachment open. Because it is annoying 
to click on it just to open a JPEG	 or ZIP and if users must always click on 
it, they will do it automatically even when it  might matter (like in a 
executable).

I think a possible general solution would be for .desktop files to have:

Exec=kword %U
Untrusted-Exec=kword --no-macros %U

or 

X-KDE-Untrusted-Exec=kword --no-macros %U.

For programs like kuickshow, we could have Untrusted-Exec=Exec. If no 
Untrusted-Exec was present, then kmail should show a warning.  
If the user is used to just clicking, he will stop to loook at the warning. 
Now, he will (or I know I do) just click "Open" without thinking too hard.

An intermediate solution would be to have a list of safe mime-types. Say, you 
can open an image/jpeg without any problems. I'd say that this is the type I 
open the most

What is nice in the Untrusted-Exec solution is that it can propagate.  Let's 
say I click on a ZIP file. This is a safe operation so I get ark immediatelly 
with all the files in the zip. Then I click on an ms-word file inside the zip 
and I get kword opening it *without* macros (I expect that by then, kword 
would be able to open *with* macros, if it wanted to).

HTH,
-- 
Luis Pedro Coelho

http://blogs.salon.com/0001523

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