This might be a dumb question, but can opening a PDF attachment via alpine (for example) infect my computer? I'm running Debian wheezy. I don't know if a PDF can execute arbitrary code, but I don't see why not.
Granted, attack vectors in the wild are not likely to be 'nix-specific.
@FaheemMitha I'm sure it will, why not? And I don't remember the name of the KDE browser either, I was just looking for it. It wasn't bad at some point.
@terdon The problem I've having is setting up freaking online banking. According to the bank customer support, everything I'm typing in is correct. But it is still failing. Godamn annoying.
Ok, really off to dinner. Thanks for the feedback, guys.
@FaheemMitha Because if it fails on firefox and chrome it was almost certainly designed for IE. Either that or the whole thing just doesn't work anywhere which seems unlikely.
@terdon I guess. Still, they supposedly support all of Chrome, Firefox, and IE, though the lady said Chrome had some issues. Technically I have been using Chromium, not Chrome, so I guess I could try Chrome. As @slm suggested.