Re: Virus's

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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 )


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