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I received an email spam with the following partial body (I'm omitting the
image itself), that, when read with Firefox 3 on my Ubuntu Linux box, produced
an image:
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_0003_03AD0000.0B070001
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0004_03AD0000.0B070001"
------=_NextPart_001_0004_03AD0000.0B070001
Content-Type: text/html; charset=gb2312
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
[long string of random characters making up image]
------=_NextPart_001_0004_03AD0000.0B070001--
------=_NextPart_000_0003_03AD0000.0B070001--
On a Windows system, I could see it possibly doing any kind of harm.
But under Linux, or even MacOS, what problems, if any, could I truly expect?
Would I be considered immune enough to not need a reinstall?
Thanks.
Scott
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This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.
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