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Re: Virus's -- This is an Emacs bomb

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Lau)
Tue Dec 6 16:06:30 1994

Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 09:44:54 -0800
From: Robert Lau <rslau@tarazed.usc.edu>
To: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.941206034736.14748C-100000@phase.helix.net> "chowes@helix.net"
Reply-To: rslau@usc.edu

   Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 03:50:58 -0800 (PST)
   From: Charles Howes <chowes@helix.net>

   So there you are, reading along in some file that you found.
   Just browsing away, when what happens, but some magic bit of
   Local variables:
   find-file-hooks: ((lambda ()
   ...

probably common knowledge but...  it won't work if you have:

  (setq inhibit-local-variables t)

in your .emacs.

Robert Lau                            Systems Programmer, Unix Systems
                                      University Computing Services            
213-740-2866                          University of Southern California        
rslau@usc.edu                         1020 W Jefferson, LA, CA  USA, 90089-0251

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