On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Security Mail wrote:
> This indeed was a Hoax! No Virus can wipe the hard disk just by reading
> an e-mail message. BUT, this message below told of an attachment that if
> run would cause dammage!
This is not true on Unix! Many Unix mailers and pagers will send
escape codes to the tty. The good ones will not, but many of
the old ones will. This will allow a mail message to control the
terminal. Many terminals has escape codes to send text back to
the host. QED the mail message can do anything the user has privs
to do.
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