[2047] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Hacking a Personal Computer via E-mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce M.)
Fri May 10 11:43:23 1996
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 08:27:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Bruce M." <brucem@wichita.fn.net>
To: matthew mcglynn <mcglynn@sentius.com>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <v02130503adb7da782a26@[205.179.18.137]>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Thu, 9 May 1996, matthew mcglynn wrote:
> Was this some kind of cruel joke? This message/attachment corrupted
> my mail queue at the server, somehow, and prevented me from
> retrieving any messages that arrived after it.
>
> Fortunately it resolved itself after 3 or 4 attempts.
>
> I thought maybe somebody was trying to demonstrate how to 'hack'
> a computer through e-mail...
That is why you try not to view stuff that has no explanation about
what it does. Even then you need to be careful.
Bruce M.
