Virus's
peter theobald (petert@lehman.com)
Tue, 6 Dec 94 15:14:21 EST
On the old Apple II, there were escape codes you could embed into
a printable string that would position the cursor, write a command,
and then cause that line on the screen to be executed.
Ie: executable mail!
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>From bugtraq-owner@fc.net Tue Dec 6 00:57:46 1994
From: broadley@turing.ucdavis.edu (Bill Broadley)
Subject: Virus's
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.
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