Is there something that can be done against this ???
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The question is not : "is this script dangerous ?", but "are you ready to blindly execute a shell script (or any program) that you receive in your mail ?".
Sure, as a user created solely for that purpose, it should be entirely
safe.
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How many users are there that use a specific user account to read their emails on their Linux workstation ?
I don't, I use my account to read mails, write documents, develop programs,etc. So even if a malicious program does not do any arm to the system, it can at least destroy or corrupt my own files and I will loose time restoru=ing from last backup and rebuilding recently modified files.
Anybody that can think probably does that. First they think that setting up a test user takes a few seconds, then they think that restoring from backup takes at least 100x longer....
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Windows 2001: "I'm sorry Dave ... I'm afraid I can't do that."