Alan Cox wrote:
> It does SYN checking. If you are running 'serious' security you wouldnt be
> allowing outgoing connections anyway. One windows christmascard.exe virus that
> connects back to an irc server to take input and you are hosed.
Thankfully, pine and mutt are, to date, immune to that kind of thing. :)
-M
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