[Gllug] Virus or worm?

[Nix]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, bredroll at atari.org gibbered:
> On 27 Jul 2001, Nix wrote:
> 
>> That's a perfectly conventional worm that just happens to use SMTP to
>> spread.
>> 
>> Email `viruses' (i.e. worms that rely on users' buggy/broken-as-designed
>> MUAs, and/or on users doing stupid things with those MUAs) are not
>> likely to take off on Unix, because of the diverse set of MUAs in use.
> 
> Yeah basically thats what i meant. thankfully popular unix MUAs didnt
> think to put that 'feature' in :-)

You could get it in Gnus or VM if the user were so stupid as to have set
`enable-local-eval' to `t'; obviously it is `maybe' (i.e. `ask the user
and show the user the code') by default.

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Programmers get to say "do what I want NOW or the hard disk gets it".'
                        -- Richard Heathfield on the nature of programming

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