[Mimedefang] application/evil MIME type (rfc3514)

Tony Nugent tony at linuxworks.com.au
Wed Apr 16 21:55:00 EDT 2003


I came across this, which people may find interesting and
potentially useful:

  http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt

This rfc describes the use of an "evil" flag in the IPv4 network
packet headers.  But it also briefly mentions a new mime type:

   An application/evil MIME type is defined for Web- or email-carried
   mischief.  Other MIME types can be embedded inside of evil sections;
   this permit easy encoding of word processing documents with macro
   viruses, etc.

Cheers
Tony



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