Re: DON'T TRY 'Cow.vt' animation!!!
From Jon Yankovich <jov...@picard.cs.wisc.edu>
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· 13 Nov 1993 05:52 · View full thread
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In article <2c14bf$85...@Notwerk.mcs.com> jor...@Notwerk.mcs.com (Jorn Barger) writes: >***************ALERT********************************************** > >The animation "cow.vt" that was just posted, in uuencoded form, is >dangerous and caused my *Mac* to lock up when uudecoded and catted, >remotely, with Zterm. > >Investigations are underway-- please be aware that this is more >dangerous than anyone told us... > >****************************************************************** Zterm could use a little rewriting. I've seen it crash from normally harmless ANSI/VT100 codes from a local BBS called The Beeline (608-233-4828). The poster of the cow animation, most positively, did not intend any harm. jon
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,dcfcc278f6fad809 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-11-13 00:31:37 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Path: gmd.de!xlink.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!agate!msuinfo!uwm.edu!uwvax!picard.cs.wisc.edu!jovian From: jov...@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Yankovich) Subject: Re: DON'T TRY 'Cow.vt' animation!!! Message-ID: <199...@cs.wisc.edu> Keywords: Cow vt Sender: new...@cs.wisc.edu (The News) Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept. References: <2c085m$3s...@nutmeg.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <2c14bf$85...@Notwerk.mcs.com> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1993 05:52:07 GMT Lines: 17
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