Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)

[Aleph One]

Actually it allows you to imbed data and commands to run. What the latest
MSWord virus did is imbed a virus dropper encoded in the word document
and then run it trough the dos debug command to make it a binary file
(if you ever read the 40HEX virus magazine you should know how this works).
>From there it just run the dropper.

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On Fri, 22 Sep 1995 dmandl at panix.com wrote:

> Is that the new MS-Word you're thinking of?  I hear that it lets you
> imbed macros containing executable code in documents.  That's got to
> be one of the most dangerous ideas ever cooked up.
> 
>    --Dave.
> 
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> Dave Mandl
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