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From: kelly@uts.amdahl.com (Kelly Goen)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: message virus (was: Computer Virus Research)
Message-ID: <0006.8908021134.AA00783@ge.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 1 Aug 89 21:23:30 GMT
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we call those ansi 3.64 control sequences.... vt100 and other
terminals have similar if not exactly the same features... ansi.sys
implements a subset of ansi 3.64 without any protection the problem
has been known at various unix sites for years only now its starting
to show up on pc's because of the usage of ansi.sys and other programs
that recognize these sequences....
                                cheers
                                kelly