Re: Worldwide Web Trojan Horse?

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From: Peter Ceresole
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 00:00

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In article <3rqqhb$d4t@nic-nac.CSU.net>,
kendrick@zippy.sonoma.edu (William Kendrick) wrote:

>Well, how did the trojan horse supposedly run?  I mean, sure you can get
>ANY file via the Web.. or FTP.. or FSP.. or a BBS.. or a friend through
>a disk..
>
>But if it's something that ran DUE to the Web, well...  that's pretty
>odd..  whoever made it probably knew some backdoors to some of the
>client/server software out there or something..

Couldn't it be a postscript file? I seem to remember that postscript files
*can* do evil things when run. 

Peter

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From: peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole)
Subject: Re: Worldwide Web Trojan Horse?
Date: 1995/06/16
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