Re: Got this - not sure of authenticity. Better safe etc...

[richard () wizard ucs sfu ca (Richard Chycoski)]

> You know what? An ANSI bomb is not a virus.

> Jason

But if that ANSI bomb contains a piece of code (e.g. a shell script)  
that reads your 'received' mail directory, and chooses to talk to all  
of your friends, that turns a bomb into a virus.

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- Richard Chycoski                    richard () sfu ca (NeXT Mail OK)
  Senior Systems Consultant
  Academic Computing Services
  Simon Fraser University