Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 08:28:46 +0100 (CET)
From: Roland Exler <R DOT Exler AT jk DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>
Sender: k3a0270 AT pop DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at
Reply-To: R DOT Exler AT jk DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at
To: djgpp <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>
Subject: RE: Internet-Virus

As far as I know about virus-mechanisms, the posted warning is quite
obvious. I can't imagine that destroying a CPU should be possible by
software except if your CPU-cooler is broken and the CPU and FPU is loaded
very much, but this way it will die anyway.


WARNING:

As some other on the list mentioned, with ANSI.SYS it would be possible to
remap keys. I don't know exactly if the features are the same, but Windows
always loads ANSI.BIN for its own, so maybe everyone using an Windows-based
mail-reader may be hit. Some mail-readers automatically extract enclosures,
so using key-redefinition any program could be started 'per email'.

Roland
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