From: jfricker@vertexgroup.com (John F. Fricker)
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 13:30:52 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: [NOISE]Re: stego virus aka Intro to Computers 101
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trying not to be technical

Excecuting a program involves putting commands into the CPU. Move data such
as a GIF or a JPEG is not anywhere near the same.

GIF, JPEGs, TIFFs, WAVs, AUs, MPEGs are data. Not executables.

At 07:56 PM 8/28/96 -0400, you wrote:
>   If a virus is embedded into a giff ,is it executed when the giff is or
>does it require the usual overwriting etc methods to execute it?
>                      TIA
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