From: Justin Mason (jm at domain jmason.org)
Date: Tue 09 May 2000 - 14:49:12 IST
"Kenn Humborg" said:
> > yep -- if you have the preview window enabled, it's run automatically.
>
> I don't think so. The danger with the preview window is that HTML
> is rendered automatically, and this HTML could contain malicious
> <SCRIPT>, <APPLET> or <OBJECT> tags.
er... maybe I'm wrong alright, getting it confused with another worm.
Thought I saw that in one of the bugtraq mails, and I can't seem to track
it down now.
BTW Lars -- that samhain worm used only the Pine bug and some other
non-mail-based holes as far as I can see.
--j.
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