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Re: Virus's -- This is an Emacs bomb


From: rens () imsi com (Rens Troost)
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 1994 12:33:56 -0500


"Charles" == Charles Howes <chowes () helix net> writes:


  Charles> Here, have some autoexecuting emacs code:

Of course, it you have:
        
        (setq inhibit-local-variables t)
        (setq enable-local-variables nil)

in your .emacs, you're safe from this attack. I would hope that
everybody who uses emacs rememebrs to do this; it should be the
default.

-Rens



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