Re: Another new worm???

[goat () STYLISHPANTS ORG (Steve Mosher)]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Justin Lintz wrote:
> About those pws coming in .txt files.  Since when could a virus come from a
> txt file unless it was a .doc with a embedded macro in it.

        Do you remember ANSI bombs? ANSI control codes would tell the
terminal how the text should be represented. It's a bit more powerful than
it really needs to be, hence the exploitation. The ultimate trojan is a peice
of text considered inert... in fact, they're /still/ workable, just there's
more screening going on now. I doubt this is how the AOL stuff worked, but
it answers your question in general. =)

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