On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 05:52:42 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> This is the first news I have heard about ANSI being exploited for
> use as some kind of virus helper. Can you point us to some more
> info about this?
Hardly a helper, a dirty trick all by itself!
If ANSI.sys is loaded, you can re
"Samuel W. Heywood" wrote:
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> On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 00:01:21 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time), howard schwartz
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> > No we just have to worry and await the hackers figuring out how to
> > make computers that display ascii characters run nasty executables -
> > oh and be sure and remov
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 00:01:21 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time), howard schwartz
wrote:
> No we just have to worry and await the hackers figuring out how to
> make computers that display ascii characters run nasty executables -
> oh and be sure and remove that ansi driver from your dos setup files!
Sounds like a conservative anti-virus strategy is to avoid using
any products and/or turn off any options that automatically allow
something on your PC to `process'' any incoming data from the internet -
be it from a web page, email, ftp, news, etc. That is, stay away from
auto - java, javascr
