[extropy-chat] [comp] Protect an exe?

[John M]

Ummm, what exactly does the concept of "read-only" mean in the context of an
e-mail attachment?

If you will be doing this often, you might look into digitally signing the
binaries; this will at least authenticate that the binary has not been
tampered with and has come from you.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-
> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of MB
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 8:08 PM
> To: ExI chat list
> Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] [comp] Protect an exe?
> 
> 
> Oh well - ReadOnly seemed like a good idea at the time.... although it
> seemed awfully easy. :)))
> 
> Perhaps Joe SixPack runs .exe attachments without fear because his
> system is set to "hide known file type extensions" *and* to do
> something like "open" any attachment on download. Arrrrrrgh. So he has
> no clue what the attachment actually is or does.
> 
> Regards,
> MB
> 
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Emlyn O'regan wrote:
> 
> 
> > You're going to put the whole anti-virus industry out of business!
> >
> > I don't think that'll work; a good virus will make it writable first :-)
> (I
> > guess.. I don't really know that much about them)
> >
> > >
> > > Also, you could have them go to your website and select the .exe to
> > > download. That would make it a bit better than having them download
> > > an .exe attachement to an email... which is a dangerous habit to get
> > > into. IYKWIM. :)
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > MB
> >
> > Yes, I'm thinking of doing that. I'll keep tinkering with approaches.
> btw,
> > opening exe attachments to emails is not something I need to
> encourage... it
> > seems it is something that Joe Sixpack is already quite comfortable with
> :-(
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