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Re: Email virus protection

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (just me)
Wed Aug 20 17:21:43 2003

Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:17:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: just me <matt@snark.net>
To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030820210736.GA61404@mail.webmonster.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:

  Some switched to Mac. Many UNIX users are on mutt or similar MUAs which
  do not bear the potential for execution of arbitrary code.

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-14.html
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1998-10.html

Wow, the second one even mentions Mutt by name.


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