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echo: virus_info
to: DAVID DESROSIERS
from: GORDON FREY
date: 1996-12-26 21:46:00
subject: Virus & antivirus future

On (25 Dec 96) David Desrosiers wrote to Michael Mueller...
 -=> Quoting Michael Mueller to The Visionary <=-
 TV>        I imagine with the advent of HTML and the web that someone
 DD> will
 TV> find a way to imbed a virus in an animated .GIF file or 
something
Clip............
 DD>         Wouldn't the browser provide that functionality? I mean, it's 
he
 DD> browser that displays the image when it's loaded into the cache. With 
e
NO as the instructions for the animation are of a limited nature 
and would not have the functionary to infect.
Gordon
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