From kmail-devel  Thu Oct 24 23:46:47 2002
From: Marc Mutz <mutz () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:46:47 +0000
To: kmail-devel
Subject: Re: KMail and WINE integration - virus
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On Thursday 24 October 2002 17:31, Roger Larsson wrote:
<snip>
> But it could be the right way anyway.
> Suppose all attachments are opened in a jail - ultimate distrust of
> stuff received from outside. But then web browsing should be run in
> that jail too... Can konqueror run in a jail.
<snip>

Come on. A jail wouldn't prevent the user from associating wine with 
.exe and .pif and whatnot files and the KLEZ worm he clicked on using 
localhost:25 or known.mail.relay:25 to send it's copies to other 
people.

Apart form that jails don't really exist on Linux yet.

If you want to be safe from Win worms, use an alpha box. wine doesn't 
run there ;-)

Marc

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