[388] in bugtraq
Re: Virus's -- This is an Emacs bomb
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rens Troost)
Tue Dec 6 16:11:51 1994
To: Charles Howes <chowes@helix.net>
Cc: Bill Broadley <broadley@turing.ucdavis.edu>, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Dec 1994 03:50:58 PST."
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Reply-To: rens@imsi.com
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 1994 12:33:56 -0500
From: Rens Troost <rens@imsi.com>
>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Howes <chowes@helix.net> writes:
Charles> Here, have some autoexecuting emacs code:
Of course, it you have:
(setq inhibit-local-variables t)
(setq enable-local-variables nil)
in your .emacs, you're safe from this attack. I would hope that
everybody who uses emacs rememebrs to do this; it should be the
default.
-Rens
