D B <geggam692000@yahoo.com> 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.
>
> ( obvious designator )
> ****************snippet****************
>
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>
> ------=_NextPart_000_0012_FAA048F2.06F42141
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="Windows-1252"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII
> encoding and has been
> sent as a binary attachment.
>
>
> ------=_NextPart_000_0012_FAA048F2.06F42141
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
> name="message.pif"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename="message.pif&HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 6840
Connection: close
P3P: CP="CAO PSA OUR"
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Virus/Spyware Download Blocked