On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Paul S. Penrod wrote:
Binary launches are the way they do it, and the way a virus spreads, unless you get caught up with autoexecuting Word and Excel macros.
I have yet to see *any* truly data propogating viruses.
Would you count the fingerd exploit used in the Internet Worm as a data propogating virus? If a poorly written mail program doesn't do bounds checking, it could conceivably allow for a Good Times-like virus. However, highly unlikely, since mail programs are too diverse and it would be very doubtful that a brain-dead mail program would become very widespread. I would be much more worried about other non-email programs that fail to do bounds checking (like Netscape v1.1). -- Mark PGP encrypted mail prefered. Key fingerprint = d61734f2800486ae6f79bfeb70f95348 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/