[pmmail-list] HTML and other parts (was: when is the new beta coming?)

[L.Willms]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:46:37 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:

  answering Carl Gehr: 

> >Why:  The HTML message that was received by a friend over the weekend,
> >no attachments, but included an imbedded Java virus that would download
> >a file in the background and clobber the system.
> 
> That's impossible.  Javascript simply cannot do that.

   For one, Carl Gehr wrote of Java, not Javascript. Maybe he confounded the 
two, but despite the name, the two are not related. 

   But a fact is, using a Microsoft browser, and its JSCRIPT implementation of 
Javascript, such a script can access the filesystem, just as a Visual Basic 
Script, via the filesystem object which is supplied by the Windows Scripting 
Host. 

Yours, 
Lüko Willms
-----------------------------------------------
Frankfurt/Main  

- pmmail-list - The PMMail Discussion List ---------------------------
To POST to the list, send your message to:
pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com

To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message to mdaemon@bmtmicro.com 
with the first line of the message body being...
UNSUBSCRIBE pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
---------------------------------------------------------------------