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Article #380Re: Worldwide Web Trojan Horse?
From: Dan Terp
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 00:00
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In article <3rrt7c$6pl@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> Les Miner <les.r.miner.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes: >I just saw a message the other day from NASRIC (Nasa's Automated Systems >Incident Response Capability) saying that there are NO web-related >viruses/trojan horses/etc. >Now, if it were a file transfered to your machine, decompressed, then >executed, that has NOTHING to do with the web, except that it was used >as a vehicle for the virus. This could also be accomplished via FTP, >Gopher, transfer via floppy, you get the idea. Actually, this one of the big concerns with VRML, and the 3-D browsers like webspace. They work by downloading a small "applet" to your system and running it there. This might be source of viral infection. Silicon Graphics says they're working on it. Dan
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107433,f903b707c4d79282 X-Google-Attributes: gid107433,public X-Google-Thread: f863a,f903b707c4d79282 X-Google-Attributes: gidf863a,public X-Google-Thread: fe74c,f903b707c4d79282 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe74c,public From: postmaster@blue.planet.net (Dan Terp) Subject: Re: Worldwide Web Trojan Horse? Date: 1995/06/16 Message-ID: <postmaster.635.001FF841@blue.planet.net> X-Deja-AN: 104613171 references: <3rqj53$qcl@news.primenet.com> <3rqqhb$d4t@nic-nac.CSU.net> <3rrt7c$6pl@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> organization: Planet Access Networks - Stanhope, NJ newsgroups: primenet.general,comp.infosystems.www.misc,cern.www.talk