On Sat, 26 May 2001 15:46:56 EDT, Mitch Halmu said:
Hmmm, I'm looking at an encoded snowhite message body right now. midgets.scr encoded in base64, and transmitted as an attachment. Can provide you a copy in private if you want to take it apart (but not on a PC, or you'll get a *huge* surprise ;)
Notice the surprise isn't when your broken MUA decodes it from base64 to binary. The surprise is when your broken MUA then takes that binary and does something stupid with it.
All others in that family that I looked at were also encoded. Did anyone get a raw binary via regular email?
And if you pay any attention - it's *NOT* the base64 decoding that protects you from these things - it's HAVING AN MUA THAT ISN'T STUPID ABOUT RUNNING EXTERNAL CODE. -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech