[Spambayes] Anti -Virus

[Chris Dellario]

I think SpamBayes would be only be exposing the system to danger if it
used Outlook to open the message, which I don't believe it does (correct
me if I'm wrong, fellas).  Outlook is especially suseptable to viruses
because it can allow macros and VBA scripts to execute, and suffers from
buffer overflows and all of those other fun vulnerabilities that
Microsoft is endlessly patching.  


-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Roos [mailto:Keithroos at kretek.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 12:24 PM
To: 'skip at pobox.com'; Dejonghe, Manuel
Cc: spambayes at python.org
Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Anti -Virus 

Gentlemen,

 Viruses are triggered by  opening an e-mail to read it. That's why it
is
standard practice to  set outlook not to  preview the inbox. 

Sure would be slick if your program could determine Spam with out
opening
the e-mail and exposing the computer to viruses.

 
Thanks

Keith 




-----Original Message-----
From: Skip Montanaro [mailto:skip at pobox.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 7:57 AM
To: Dejonghe, Manuel
Cc: Keith Roos; spambayes at python.org
Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Anti -Virus 



    Manuel> Please, somebody of the developer team read my answer and
    Manuel> correct us, if I am wrong, as I am not totally sure of what
I'm
    Manuel> telling here.

Manuel's explanation looks fine to me.  SpamBayes opens and reads the
contents of the message but never executes it, nor does it try to feed
it to
another program which will interpret it.  Any buffer overflow problems
would
have to be in the Python interpreter itself.  At the current time we are
unaware of any.

Skip

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