[3734] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Re : Any internet virus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Cameron)
Fri Dec 6 16:29:20 1996
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 20:27:07 +0200 (GMT+0200)
From: Andrew Cameron <andrew@andy.alt.za>
To: root@virtualscope.com
cc: Ong Joon Kian <ongjk@tm.net.my>,
Internet Engineering Task Force <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <32A7CF06.E40@virtualscope.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Administrator wrote:
> And what does this thread have to do with www security?
>
> This thread is way off topic, please take it elsewhere.
>
> I thought www-security was going to be moderated?
>
> Have we cleaned up the automailer yet (ie. making it easier to
> unsubscribe)?
>
If you had not been asleep you would ask yourself if it were possible for
a hacker to use simaliar tricks int HTML
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> Andrew Cameron wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Ong Joon Kian wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I don't know about you, but it seems to me that a virus that spreads
> > > through ASCII is certainly nothing to worry about. Computer aren't
> > > designed to execute ASCII files. It needs to be converted to binary
> > > first. Or am I wrong?
> >
> > On Good old DOS it was possible to cause damage if ansi.sys was installed.
> > The trick was to use ansi escape codes to re-program the keys on the PC.
> >
> > Think what happens when the following is programmed into the Enter key
> > set foreground color to black
> > format c:
> > y
> > This wipes the hard drive and the poor user will not even see it.
> >
> > It was a long time ago but I have seen an Ascii virus in action based on
> > the above.
> >
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> >
> > Andrew Cameron
> > Internet : andrew@andy.alt.za
> > X.400 : C=ZA G=Andrew S=Cameron Admd=TELKOM400
> >
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Andrew Cameron
Internet : andrew@andy.alt.za
X.400 : C=ZA G=Andrew S=Cameron Admd=TELKOM400
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