April 24, 1995
Is an email virus possible?
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No. There is no way for a virus to spread simply by reading email.
A few people have gone through mental gymnastics trying to dream up a way
such a thing could be done. The closest anyone has come is to infect a
program with a virus, encode the program into text with uuencode, binhex,
etc., and email the encoded program. The person receiving the email would
have to download the mail to their hard drive, decode it, and run the
infected program. That's not even close to the claims made for the spread of
Good Times.
http://straylight.cso.niu.edu/nats/goodtime.htm
Innocent.times!
:-)
_bri
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