Bugtraq: Re: Virus's

[rafi () tavor openu ac il (Rafi Sadowsky)]

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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