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Re: Got this - not sure of authenticity. Better safe etc...
From: geiri () stud cs uit no (Geir Inge Jensen)
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 11:44:49 +0100 (MET)
PC Users: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Subject: virus There is a virus on America Online being sent by E-Mail. If you get anything called "Good Times", DON'T read it or download it. It is a virus that will erase your hard drive. Forward this to all your friends. It may help them alot.There is no way to transmit a virus to a computer via the terminal. Sure, maybe you can turn the printer on and off. Or maybe start up an zmodem download but you cannot get a virus on a remote machine by sending ascii...
Well, if the terminal happens to be a PC, isn't it possible to remap a
keyboard by sending ANSI escape sequences in the message? If so, just remap
a key to be '<enter>DEL C:\*.*<enter>'! Should cause some damage...
Bye,
--
Geir Inge Jensen Department of Computer Science
University of Tromsø, Norway
SMTP: geiri () staff cs uit no
URL: http://www.cs.uit.no/~geiri/ Phone: +47 77 64 41 23
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