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1995-09-23 - Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)

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From: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>
To: dmandl@panix.com
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UTC Datetime: 1995-09-23 00:53:21 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 17:53:21 PDT

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From: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 17:53:21 PDT
To: dmandl@panix.com
Subject: Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)
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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@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.
> 
> --
> Dave Mandl
> dmandl@panix.com
> http://wfmu.org/~davem
>

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