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to: RICK COLLINS
from: DENIS MOREAUX
date: 1997-04-20 13:08:00
subject: Linux and viruses...

Hello Rick!
Vendredi Avril 18 1997 18:20, Rick Collins wrote to Denis Moreaux:
 dm>> OK... There are only Bad applets... But how far can they go into
 dm>> the system (for both Javascripts, Java and Active X) ?
 RC> They can't go anywhere on the system.  The question you're really
 RC> asking is "what does the browser that _runs_ these applets allow the
 RC> applets to do"?
OK... "What does the browser... and are there risk of trojanized HTML pages 

 RC> It's very much the same argument as the "virus in E-mail" that will
 RC> execute when you read the file.  Only if the reader, for some reason,
 RC> trys to load and execute what it "reads".
Javascripts, Java applets and Active X are meant to be executed !!! E-mail 
usually not.
Denis
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