-=> Quoting Michael Mueller to The Visionary <=-
 TV>        I imagine with the advent of HTML and the web that someone will
 TV> find a way to imbed a virus in an animated .GIF file or something that
 TV> when you hit their site, it's downloaded into your cache, and your 
rowse
 TV> will execute it (the animated file) and infect your system.
 MM> Don't think this will be happend since there are different types of
 MM> machines out on the Web and all users want to see animations so you
 MM> have to offer one aninimation file working for all types of machines.
 MM> And if code executed from the cache this is a big bug in a viewer and
 MM> a very large piece of "luck" it catched the entry-point of the code and
 MM> runs on the right machine.
        Wouldn't the browser provide that functionality? I mean, it's the
browser that displays the image when it's loaded into the cache. With the
advant of Netscape and IE, many machines are running a DOS/Winders
combination, and this means you can take a large percentage hit if you came 
p
with such a virus that would touch those machines. If you wanted, you could
hit all the Linux machines out there too, but there's too many to worry about
in that category ;)
-The Visionary
visionary@brazerko.com
... A friend advises in his interest, not yours.
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