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Subject:	Re: FW: questions about security & WWW browsers
From:	Christian Wettergren <cwe @ it . kth . se>
Date:	Thu, 23 Feb 95 10:39:09 +0100
To:	Brent @ greatcircle . com (Brent Chapman)
Cc:	"Bai, Mario" <BAIM @ itg . viacom . com>, firewalls <firewalls @ greatcircle . com>
In-reply-to:	Your message of Wed, 22 Feb 95 14:08:38 EST. <v0211010bab70caed3538 @ [198 . 102 . 244 . 39]>

| >I just have one question; the example that you cite about
| >troff/nroff works for a Unix client; are there any such holes for Windows 
| >or Macintosh clients?
| 
| Who knows?  I don't know, but I assume there are.

I have a friend that implemented a virus on top of Microsoft Word
documents one and a half years ago. Word has a general purpose
programming language in it as well as autostart capabilities.
(Yes, it was contained.)

/Christian Wettergren, cwe @
 it .
 kth .
 se

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