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echo: virus_info
to: DAVID DESROSIERS
from: KURT WISMER
date: 1997-03-25 10:08:00
subject: Re: another weird idea..

 -=> Mocking David to All <=-
  (Mock, mOck, moCk, mocK)
 DD> Here's a weird one that I just thought of...
 DD> Would it be possible to imbed some executable code into the
 DD> .ZIP comment that is in many .ZIP files that shows up before it's
 DD> unzip'd (not the ones that show up after). I have been able to imbed
 DD> ANSI as well as control characters (BELL, TAB, and so on) in mine, but
 DD> I wonder if I changed it to binary, if it would infect/load when the
 DD> file was unzip'd.... 
 DD> Ideas anyone?
it would not infect... archive comments are directed at standard output
(the screen)... when was the last time you ever heard of a virus
infected because someone viewed it?
besides, pkzip doesn't show the comment anymore by default from what i
understand... you have to specifically tell it to do so...
... E = mc^2 = mv{photon}^2 = m(d^2)/(t^2) = mad = Fd = W...
                   
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