Re: MIME question...

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>has anyone on this list heard of an "auto-execute MIME extension"?  is
>this an issue?  the question arose when i doubted the likelihood of
>a "virus" being launched via reading an e-mail message.
>
>your thoughts?


The closest to this I've heard of is also a potential problem with
some Web Browsers.

If you can invoke a sufficiently sophisticated postscript interpreter
with an email message or a web graphic, you can embed code to do
unintended things, since PostScript is a full language.

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