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Re: Virus's
From: rafi () tavor openu ac il (Rafi Sadowsky)
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 10:58:57 +0200 (IST)
On Mon, 5 Dec 1994, Bill Broadley wrote:
I've heard there are text files that are emailable then if run on a pc actually do things. I.e. a Ascii only file thats legally executable, this is probably a distortion of a similiar story. I have studied the x86 op codes to see if you can actually get much done with an Ascii file. But of course no email programs I know of have a method to autoexecute a received email. -- Bill Broadley Broadley () math ucdavis edu UCD Math Sys-Admin Linux is great. http://ucdmath.ucdavis.edu/~broadley PGP-ok
how about MIME & gpostscript attachments executeed with ghostcript (I'm sure ther are others ) -- Rafi Sadowsky rafi () tavor openu ac il [postmaster () openu ac il] FAX: +972-3-6460483
Current thread:
- Got this - not sure of authenticity. Better safe etc... Doug Hughes (Dec 05)
- Re: Got this - not sure of authenticity. Better safe etc... Perry E. Metzger (Dec 05)
- Re: Got this - not sure of authenticity. Better safe etc... Bennett Todd (Dec 06)
- Re: Got this - not sure of authenticity. Better safe etc... Sean Allen (Dec 06)
- Virus's peter theobald (Dec 06)
- Re: Virus's Zygo Blaxell (Dec 07)
- Re: Got this - not sure of authenticity. Better safe etc... Bennett Todd (Dec 06)
- Re: Got this - not sure of authenticity. Better safe etc... Perry E. Metzger (Dec 05)
- Virus's Bill Broadley (Dec 05)
- virii? Richard Forno (Dec 05)
- Re: virii? Dave Williss (Dec 07)
- Re: Virus's Rafi Sadowsky (Dec 06)
- Re: Virus's -- This is an Emacs bomb Charles Howes (Dec 06)
- Re: Virus's -- This is an Emacs bomb Dave Goldberg (Dec 06)
- Re: Virus's -- This is an Emacs bomb Rens Troost (Dec 06)
- letter bombs: enable-local-eval saves Emacs 19 Stephen Gildea (Dec 06)
- Re: Virus's -- This is an Emacs bomb Robert Lau (Dec 06)
- Re: Virus's -- This is an Emacs bomb Charles Howes (Dec 07)
- virii? Richard Forno (Dec 05)
- Re: Got this - not sure of authenticity. Better safe etc... Geir Inge Jensen (Dec 06)
- Re: Got this - not sure of authenticity. Better safe etc... Jim Littlefield (Dec 06)