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From: phorgan@cup.portal.com (Patrick John Horgan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Self Extracting Archives
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Date: 10 Mar 90 18:52:56 GMT
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Steve Snodgrass said:
|I'll try not to be insulting, but this is a very stupid attitude.  Has it
|occured to you that there is basically no difference between executing a self
|extracting archive, and extracting some stuff from an archive then executing
|that?  Either way, you run the same risk that some jerk who is out to cause
|trouble created the archive.  The archive could even contain fake documentatio
n
|and such.  In short, there is no secuirty advantage to non-self-extracting
|archives. 
That's why most of us just get sources off the net.  I would never execute 
ANYthing I got off the net, and if source isn't included then I don't get
to have it...oh well:)

Patrick Horgan                          phorgan@cup.portal.com