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On 11/03/14 11:08, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:46:55 +0000 > Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Neil, > >> That is what I thought. So what would happen, it would just sit there >> and do nothing, or an error message perhaps? Not that it matters, I >> have no plans to do anything with such rubbish except trash it. > I've never done it either so can't be sure what'll happen, but suspect > you'll see a little disk activity as the OS tries to run the program, > and fails. IDK what you'd see if you tried running the program from a > shell, but reckon there's be lots of error messages. > > > If you are going to attempt to run from a shell surely you would be betted off opening it in a text editor and seeing what it is going to do, I think a few of these attachments must have some sort of webby type script in them as some seem to grab your address book for example or connect to a remote host or so I have read. If you have web mail (IMAP) maybe worth booting a live cd, then looking at the e-mail with that, maybe even open in a text editor and putting the contents somewhere so people here can have a look, If nothing else we may learn something about what these people are trying to do. Paul -- -- web : http://www.zleap.net twitter : @zleap14 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam, 8th March 2014 - http://dcglug.drogon.net/torbay-pi-jam/ I am committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable groups and expect any school or establishment I am involved with to share this commitment. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq