On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:54:34 EDT, mickey newnam <mnewnam@cyberwerx.com> said:
> Hi everyone,
>
> If you get an ecard greeting from me DO NOT OPEN it.
> My computer seems to have been infected with some kind
> of worm. Delete the email immediately.
Seems somebody chose mail software from a vendor that didn't read the
warning in RFC1341, section 7.4:
The "application" Content-Type is to be used for data which
do not fit in any of the other categories, and particularly
for data to be processed by mail-based uses of application
programs. This is information which must be processed by an
application before it is viewable or usable to a user.
Expected uses for Content-Type application include mail-
based file transfer, spreadsheets, data for mail-based
scheduling systems, and languages for "active"
(computational) email. (The latter, in particular, can pose
security problems which should be understood by
implementors, and are considered in detail in the discussion
of the application/PostScript content-type.)
> I'm sorry for the inconvience.
Happens all the time. Complain to your vendor.
--
Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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