Yep, without the user it can't do anything. If the user decides to run it, it tries to spread, but again, the receiver should (not) run it voluntarily. See http://www.ambrosiasw.com/forums/index. ... pic=102379 for some sane info.
No mention in this thread of that problem, where the default browser Safari will run somewhat disguised shell scripts when it's allowed to run 'safe' files? (default) That actually seems serious to me.
Jonathan wrote:No mention in this thread of that problem, where the default browser Safari will run somewhat disguised shell scripts when it's allowed to run 'safe' files? (default) That actually seems serious to me.
Yes, this one is serious. Turning off the option is Safari will stop it from happening in Safari, but it allegedly does it in Mail.app, too.
It works in Mail when the .jpg itself is sent, and not as a "Windows-friendly" attachment. It still has to be clicked inside Mail though, but it's hard to inspect the thing inside Mail (and it doesn't warn or anything when you click), and I think many users will indeed click it there. Ouch.
Jonathan wrote:Succeptable to Vista viruses: No. But probably susceptible.
Camino doesn't use the Mac OS X spell-checker. ;) I found Camino to suck less than Firefox, but sucking less than Firefox is one peg down from sucking less than IE.
Jonathan wrote:I've never had any problems with animated GIFs in Safari.
Succeptable to Vista viruses: No. But probably susceptible.
whoops, sorry about the language misuse
yeah, i didnt have any trouble with it till i got tiger...
maybe you have tiger, i dont know. but i went to the support forums and they said that it was a known problem.
Being on 10.2.8 I have Safari 1.0.3 (complete with debug button), heh. (Actually, not "heh"—why won't they distribute free upgrades?) I don't have any problem with animated gifs in particular, other than general slowness in the loading of pages.
sorry about the language misuse