On (22 Apr 97) Rick Collins wrote to Denis Moreaux...
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rc> It's very much the same argument as the "virus in E-mail" that
rc> will execute when you read the file. Only if the reader, for
rc> some reason, trys to load and execute what it "reads".
dm> Javascripts, Java applets and Active X are meant to be executed
dm> !!! E-mail usually not.
 RC> Of course they're meant to be executed.  And they _will_ execute:
 RC> but what they can do is limited by what the "Java virtual machine"
 RC> itself is capable of doing.  Since the JVM doesn't need to perform
 RC> access at the _real_ OS level, it isn't programmed to do so.  So the
 RC> applet can't, either.
Well Active X doesn't have the same level of protection that java 
has.....  The is a good article in Mays Byte.  But it _is_ posable 
to write a virus in Active X and much harder in Java as java runs 
in a virtual machine and it's harder to get around Java's 
sercuity.
Gordon
... Flashlight:  A case used for storing dead batteries.
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