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echo: virus_info
to: THE VISIONARY
from: RICK COLLINS
date: 1996-12-23 20:37:00
subject: Virus infect picture

-=> Quoting The Visionary to Kurt Wismer <=-
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tv> What if you store viral code in an image, and then that code is
tv> executed by the image VIEWER you use to look at it? Wouldn't
tv> that be the same as a macro virus -- dormant until Word executes
tv> it? 
The image viewer doesn't _execute_ the image data.  It's _data_, not
code.  And, no, it's not the same thing as a "macro virus".  Macros
_are_ expected to be executed.
TTFN. Rick.
Ottawa, ON 23 Dec 20:39 
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