Hello GREG!

17 Dec 03 23:40, GREG PAKSI wrote to MIKE ROSS:

 GP> You can print out a virus exe file into ascii, but that doesn't
 GP> make it a batch file.

But it takes little/no imagination to make it into one:

echo line1>virus.dat
echo line2>>virus.dat
echo line3>>virus.dat
[...]
decode virus.dat to virus.com/exe
call virus.com/exe

 GP> And since I said and ascii batch file cannot contain a virus, I
 GP> still don't think I've been proven wrong.

"An ASCII batch file cannot contain a virus" is false.  An ASCII
batch file =can= contain almost any other file found on your system,
including viruses. 
"Proof" is in the eye of the beholder. :)

 GP> And escape sequences are not batch files either.  They
 GP> need/utilize other executable files or internal operating system
 GP> functions to work.

Equally true for each and every BAT, COM, EXE, or DLL...virus or not.

.\\ike

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