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From: hutto@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Jon Hutto)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: message virus (was: Computer Virus Research)
Message-ID: <0006.8907311200.AA25265@ge.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 30 Jul 89 17:17:17 GMT
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You might be interested to know that even messages can have damaging viruses
in them. On several local BBS's there have been Escape sequences that have
redevined keys so as to when the sysop is in dos and hits a key, it starts
deleting files and directories. The worst thing about this is that people
have been able to do this for a long time. they are explained in the DOS
Technical Reference manual.

There are also rumors of a ZMODEM virus that spreads visa ZMODEM transfers,
but I have not been able to find out very much about it, and it may be just
a rumor.