[375] in bugtraq
Re: Virus's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rafi Sadowsky)
Tue Dec 6 05:21:19 1994
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 10:58:57 +0200 (IST)
From: Rafi Sadowsky <rafi@tavor.openu.ac.il>
To: Bill Broadley <broadley@turing.ucdavis.edu>
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <9412060214.AA21102@turing.ucdavis.edu>
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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