Re: [MV] Urgent: Anyone accessing the internet! (HOAX)!

Just fishin' from my (gamma_goat@plazma.net)
Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:15:00 -0800

At 05:19 PM 11/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>The virus is the warning itself, there is no virus
>>that can be spread via e mail.. attatchments yes,
>>E-mail that you just "open" no.
>
>Hate to contribute to off-topic items, but this is not entirely true.
>Depending on the e-mail package you are using, you can receive a virus just
>by the act of receiving an e-mail with an attachment. (Created by
>exploiting a buffer overflow in the attachment file name field.) See:
>http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/14034.html
>
>Todd Paisley

the threat of this kind of attack is, at this stage, pretty much nil. in
part because you still have to mess with an attachment menu / filemenu, and
I have yet to see anyone actually infect a machine with it.. there's a big
difference between crash a machine and format a harddrive..
-dd

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