Virus's

[petert () lehman com (peter theobald)]

On the old Apple II, there were escape codes you could embed into
a printable string that would position the cursor, write a command,
and then cause that line on the screen to be executed.
Ie: executable mail!

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> From bugtraq-owner () fc net  Tue Dec  6 00:57:46 1994
From: broadley () turing ucdavis edu (Bill Broadley)
Subject: Virus's

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.
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