Re: Got this - not sure of authenticity. Better safe etc...

Richard Chycoski (richard@wizard.ucs.sfu.ca)
Tue, 6 Dec 94 13:19:46 PST

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> You know what? An ANSI bomb is not a virus.
> 

> Jason

But if that ANSI bomb contains a piece of code (e.g. a shell script)  
that reads your 'received' mail directory, and chooses to talk to all  
of your friends, that turns a bomb into a virus.

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- Richard Chycoski                    richard@sfu.ca (NeXT Mail OK)
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  Simon Fraser University

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