"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
> I have the impression you are just trying to seed some paranoia, unless
> you have a concrete example of something going wrong i don't see any
> problems.

To be fair to the person who reported the problem, I think it's not
paranoia. Computer security is an important issue these days.

Users of POV-Ray must realise that it is NOT designed to be 'network
safe', and it is NOT designed to take untrusted input. There are
without doubt potential buffer overflows and other various methods
of causing the program to misbehave, given the right set of input
files and/or filenames.

Anyone using POV-Ray in such a way that it accepts input from unknown
persons via the net ought to be very wary, and certainly an installation
of that nature, if it exists, should be run with the minimim privileges
available under the host operating system.

-- Chris

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