Full Disclosure: Re: Email

[Ake Nordin <rootmoose () telia com>]

At 04:04 2004-02-04 -0800, you wrote:
> I'm by no means a security expert nor do I want to be,
> but while I read this list at 3 am my mind wanders and
> I wish for someone from experience to explain to me
> why any virus can infect any mail server / user  when
> those administrating a mail server can make a mail
> server handle mail in the manner I pasted a snippet of
> from my own in-box.
The text for human consumption retained below was in
the mail from the outset, it has not been "transformed"
to something "harmless" by any intermediate mail relay.

It's just the beginning of a plain MIME BASE64 encoding,
your favorite mail client is all too well ready to decode
it back into executable format and run it, should you
decide to click on the attachment in the mail.

> The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII
> encoding and has been 
> sent as a binary attachment.
Regards,


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 /Ake Nordin       +46704-660199       rootmoose () telia com
 Duston Sickler: "There are only 10 types of people in the
 world, those who understand binary and those who don't."

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