Re: MIME question...

[pwh () bradley bradley edu (Pete Hartman)]

> has anyone on this list heard of an "auto-execute MIME extension"?  is
> this an issue?  the question arose when i doubted the likelihood of
> a "virus" being launched via reading an e-mail message.
>
> your thoughts?


The closest to this I've heard of is also a potential problem with
some Web Browsers.

If you can invoke a sufficiently sophisticated postscript interpreter
with an email message or a web graphic, you can embed code to do
unintended things, since PostScript is a full language.