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Article #1594Re: Postscript Viruses
From: John Gardiner Myers
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1990 20:04
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1990 20:04
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People seem to be making the invalid assumption that all PostScript implementations are in printers. Display PostScript implementations are becoming increasingly more common. A PostScript program running in such an implementation would not be overly restricted in the amount of resources it could affect. The potential for trojan horses or viruses in PostScript is large. Practically noone looks through the code before previewing or printing a document from a non-trusted source, escpecially if it looks like it came from a document production system. -- _.John G. Myers Internet: John.G.Myers@andrew.cmu.edu (412) 268-2984 LoseNet: ...!seismo!ihnp4!wiscvm.wisc.edu!give!up
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jm36+ From: jm36+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Gardiner Myers) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Postscript Viruses Message-ID: <AZiqRcy00VcJQGG9tf@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 22 Jan 90 20:04:56 GMT References: <21772@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1990Jan14.180821.18711@trigraph.uucp> <139@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>, <17720@rpp386.cactus.org> Organization: Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: <17720@rpp386.cactus.org>