SCO going after BSD???

Terry Lambert tlambert2 at mindspring.com
Thu Nov 20 05:24:33 PST 2003


Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:28:04PM -0600, Minnesota Slinky wrote:
> 
> > I talked to a couple of people who do beta testing for Microsoft and
> > they said the issue came up a few years ago.  According to them (one
> > being my father), it has to do with security and virus protection.
> > Again, this is second-hand, so take it for what it's worth...
> 
> There's no possible sense in which this can be true.  Plain text
> attachments do not create a security or virus risk.

When your message has "Content-Disposition: inline", and the handler
for rendeing "Content-type: text/plain" happens to be Microsoft Word...

-- Terry


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list