Time: Mon Nov 04 14:39:17 1996
To: Ninth.Wave@concentric.net, "Inc." <nwave@ninthw.com>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Re: Virus Update: RAFT.TXT not RATH.TXT
Cc: 
Bcc: 

At 12:48 PM 11/4/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Hey Paul:
>
>To my knowledge, there are NO viri that can
>infect plain vanilla ASCII files.

I know.  I know!  Try this:
 
    C:\TEMP> rename rath.txt virus.exe

A program can do that as easily as 
as a user at a keyboard.

Nancy said that RATH.TXT has some
unprintable ASCII imbedded in it.

Go figure ...

/s/ Paul Mitchell



>In order for a virus to infect a hard disk,
>some form of executable must be initiated.
>That means binary!  There is a notorious PKZIP
>virus, and a Microsoft Word Macro virus.  There
>have been no viri associated with
>GIF or JPEG files to my knowledge.
>
>Having said that, I'm sure that a text file
>that has been converted to binary by some
>method, could self extract and execute a binary
>as it does so.
>
>Also, I would assume that the virus in question
>affected only Wintel based machines.... I would request
>that prejudice against the Mac be recognized :)
>
>Cheers,
>Dean
>
>BTW - I have loaded the bulletin board onto
>the Supreme Law site... It should be fully
>functioning by beginning of next week.
>
>>Dear Joe,
>>
>>Thanks for the update.
>>No sooner did I broadcast
>>a warning about RATH.TXT,
>>when your update arrived
>>about RAFT.TXT.  I am 
>>responsible for the 
>>spelling error.
>>
>>/s/ Paul Mitchell
>>
>>
>>
>>>Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 13:37:09 -0800
>>>From: "Joseph John., D'Ambrosio" <giuseppe@avana.net>
>>>To: pmitch@primenet.com
>>>Subject: virus
>>>
>>>Paul
>>>Nancy Lord asked me to pass on to you that RAFT.TXT has been checked out 
>>>and it is fine.  It is something else and she still does not know where 
>>>it came from.
>>>
>>>Joe
>>>
>>>
>>
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>
>
      

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