Re: [Epic] [Fwd: E-Mail Virus Warning]

From: Joseph Looney <mlooney_at_...>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 07:55:21 -0600

nethol wrote:
>
> >
> Not so. First, you don't need a virus that can run on multiple operating
> systems since the great majority of the receiving ends are PC's and PC
> networks. You just devise one that can work under DOS and has a header
> section that enables it to load itself under Windows/OS2 variants.
> Secondly, you *can* activate a virus by reading your mail. The simplest
> case would be to include an exe file in the attachment. Further, the
> message body itself *can* carry an executable set of instructions or a
> trigger to them as well. That's how your browser crashes from time to time
> (by disinterpreting some of the data in a web page that is being opened -
> which is not fundamentally different than viewing your mail).
>
> S. Birol Akmeric
>
> nethol_at_...

You are snorting the good stuff.
Send me a e-mail that will launch a virus on reading, or for that matter
just launch an .EXE file on reading.
Try any one of the following e-mail address

miooney_at_...
mlooney_at_...
mlooney_at_...
jmlooney_at_...
mike_at_...

If you can't do it shut the fuck up.
Received on Thu Feb 13 1997 - 13:55:21 UTC