Re: [Exim] Nimda Worm

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Author: Alan J. Flavell
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To: Mark Baker
CC: Exim users list
Subject: Re: [Exim] Nimda Worm
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Mark Baker wrote:

> How does it work anyway? Surely any half decent MUA will pass audio/x-wav
> attachments to a .wav player;


Oh, quite.

> there can't be that many people who would save
> an attachment to disc and then double-click on it.


But they seem quite happy to install and use a widely-touted
brain-dead product which will merrily do that _for_ them, despite all
the warnings given by their system administrators and despite all the
proven grief that this product has caused in broadly similar
situations in the past.