[397] in bugtraq
Re: Got this - not sure of authenticity. Better safe etc...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Chycoski)
Tue Dec 6 19:21:15 1994
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 94 13:19:46 PST
From: richard@wizard.ucs.sfu.ca (Richard Chycoski)
To: Jason Matthews <jason@dickory.sdsu.edu>
Cc: Doug.Hughes@eng.auburn.edu, jason@dickory.sdsu.edu,
au-unix-managers@eng.auburn.edu, bugtraq@fc.net,
happenings@eng.auburn.edu
> 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)
Senior Systems Consultant
Academic Computing Services
Simon Fraser University
