I just tried saving a suspect file of the avi.exe sort to see how it
behaved under LINUX using Pan 0.132 and I found it used '755' permission
settings thus rendering it (theoretically, at least) executable.
OK, I know this is a Windows virus file, but it seems very bad practice
as no doubt someone could post a shell script of malicious program for
LINUX as well.
Should it not default to '644' under *all* cases, and at least force the
user to use chmod if they REALLY do want to execute some downloaded
attachment?
Thinking here of my non-tech family who now enjoy the relative lack of
software threats by "embracing the penguin"...
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