On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 12:30:11PM -0500, Jim Trigg wrote:
On Fri, November 3, 2006 12:09 pm, Marc Perkel wrote:
Gunter Ohrner wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 2. November 2006 23:43 schrieb Marc Perkel:
email. And the virus wouldn't have access to the IMAP password so
Why not?
Because the virus wouldn't have the password.
That doesn't answer the question. Why would the IMAP password be any less accessible to a virus than the SMTP password? (For that matter, what you just used was "proof by assertion" which is meaningless. "The virus wouldn't have access to the IMAP password because the virus wouldn't have the password.")
Not sure if this is where either of you are going, but...
If people are foolish enough to save their account's password on-disk, then a virus (given enough intelligence) will have access to it. Yes, it means that you'll have to type it in once per startup of the e-mail client, but I for one leave mine running -- and use hibernate.
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