Re: Virus Trends (and FAXes on PCs)

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From: Geoffrey H. Cooper
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1990 01:13

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ras@rayssdb.ssd.ray.com (Ralph A. Shaw) writes:
>Nagle@cup.portal.com says:
>
>>     - A FAX message is a bitstream interpreted by an interpreter at
>>       the receving end.  Could it be induced to do something interesting
>>       through the use of illegal bit patterns?

One annoying thing you can do is to spew out paper from the remote fax.
The protocol allows the paper length to be anything up to (i think) 65K
lines or so, so you could spew out 25' of paper at a time, finishing
the receiver's roll of paper and so rendering it useless.  Note that
it doesn't take much time to transmit this image, if it is toally
white or black.

- - Geof
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geof@aurora.com / aurora!geof@decwrl.dec.com / geof%aurora.com@decwrl.dec.com

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Subject: Re: Virus Trends (and FAXes on PCs)
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