What is this Eudora security hole attack?

[Jason Balicki]

>The files that are being stripped out are *.lnk files. What are
>these? These should be MS Word or MS Publisher files. When I release
>these messages, they show up as folder shortcuts on a MS system, and
>useless files on a Macintosh. It is entirely possible that her client
>does not know how to send these files (though I may get the argument
>that 'they have always gotten files to us before and not had any
>problems'. You know what argument I'm talking about<grin>?)

Most likely the person who's sending the files is sending a
Microsoft shortcut instead of the actual file.  Microsoft
shortcuts are .lnk, which can be a shortcut to a file, program
or a URL, but that's all it is, a "shortcut".  Instruct the sender
to send the actual file and you'll be fine.

When something "suddenly stops working" the fault can always
be blamed on some person, except in the case of automatic
upgrades. :)

I can't answer the second part of your question, sorry.

>Why does Microsoft have to suck so much? (That's a rhetorical
>question....)

I know it's rhetorical, but it sucks so much so that you'll
buy the next version in the hopes it'll be better.  This tactic
is nearing end-of-life, finally.

--J(K)