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- From: jamie@jamie.interpath.net (Jim Cooper)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 13 Jan 1996 18:30:36 GMT
- Organization: Interpath -- Providing Internet access to North Carolina
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- In article <54422@babylon.pfm-mainz.de> rbabel@babylon.pfm-mainz.de (Ralph Babel) writes:
- > Jim Cooper wrote:
- >
- > > Datatypes.
- > >
- > > If you send an AmigaGuide file as an EMail attachment, it
- > > will show up in the Voodoo window *as* AmigaGuide - with
- > > clickable buttons, etc!
- >
- > Good grief!
- >
- > What if someone received the following AmigaGuide attachment?
- >
- > [nasty, evil AmigaGuide commands deleted]
-
- The same thing that would happen if you downloaded a file from AmiNET with
- those commands, and read it in the normal manner.
-
- > The following patches ...
- >
- > [offsets/changes deleted]
- >
- > .... will disable onopen, onclose, rx, rxs, and system.
-
- Yep, and make AmigaGuide a lot less useful.
-
- I think I'll just go disable all the Open/Write entry points in my system,
- so nobody can possibly do anything bad to the data I have...
-
- There *is* such as thing as over-reacting, Ralph.
-
- It is possible to abuse anything, but if you hadn't posted just *how* to
- do that to the ENTIRE WORLD, it might have gone unnoticed - now its a lot
- *more* likely that this very thing will happen to someone. :-(
-
- --
- Jim Cooper | World: jamie@interpath.com | "I-Net 225 is my life... or at
- | BIX: jcooper | least it seems like it!" :-)
-
- Definition of Perfection: Dysfunctionally Challenged.
-