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Message no. 1
From: MikeE@******.dragonsys.com
Subject: email viruses:Internet Worm
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 08:44:15 -0500
While Good Times is a complete hoax, the internet worm of a few years ago was
spread by email, so watch what you say about email viruses being impossible.

That said, what allowed the internet worm to work was a frequently found trap
door in the particular email package for a particular (and common) kind of
computer running a particular operating system. That trap door is gone, but it is
impossible to prove there are not others... Online services like AOL which supply
the same front-end software to all their users are a particularly tempting target to
an email-virus writer; if you can find a trap door in their mail handling routines,
you can infect lots-o-people.

Double-Domed Mike
Message no. 2
From: "A. Blair Blackwell" <ab130f92@*******.adelphi.edu>
Subject: Re: email viruses:Internet Worm
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 13:30:53 -0500 (EST)
At 08:44 4/4/96 -0500, you wrote:
>While Good Times is a complete hoax, the internet worm of a few years ago was
>spread by email, so watch what you say about email viruses being impossible.
>
>That said, what allowed the internet worm to work was a frequently found trap
>door in the particular email package for a particular (and common) kind of
>computer running a particular operating system. That trap door is gone,
but it is
>impossible to prove there are not others... Online services like AOL which
supply
>the same front-end software to all their users are a particularly tempting
target to
>an email-virus writer; if you can find a trap door in their mail handling
routines,
>you can infect lots-o-people.
>
>Double-Domed Mike
>

Down with AOL! Down with AOL! Down with AOL! Down with AOL! Down with AOL!
Down with AOL! Down with AOL! Down with AOL! Down with AOL! Down with AOL!
Down with AOL! Down with AOL! Down with AOL! Down with AOL! Down with AOL!
Down with AOL!
Message no. 3
From: "Randy \"Wistler\" Szabadics" <wistler@**.net>
Subject: Re: email viruses:Internet Worm
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 16:19:22 -0500 (EST)
At 01:30 PM 4/4/96 -0500, you wrote:
>At 08:44 4/4/96 -0500, you wrote:
>>While Good Times is a complete hoax, the internet worm of a few years ago was
>>spread by email, so watch what you say about email viruses being impossible.
>>
>>That said, what allowed the internet worm to work was a frequently found trap
>>door in the particular email package for a particular (and common) kind of
>>computer running a particular operating system. That trap door is gone,
>but it is
>>impossible to prove there are not others... Online services like AOL which
>supply
>>the same front-end software to all their users are a particularly tempting
>target to
>>an email-virus writer; if you can find a trap door in their mail handling
>routines,
>>you can infect lots-o-people.
>>
>>Double-Domed Mike
>>
>
>Down with AOL! Down with AOL! Down with AOL! Down with AOL! Down with AOL!
>Down with AOL! Down with AOL! Down with AOL! Down with AOL! Down with AOL!
>Down with AOL! Down with AOL! Down with AOL! Down with AOL! Down with AOL!
>Down with AOL!
>
Was that neccasary Blackwell?


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