You are joking, right?  8^]  I mean disk thrashing can be a way of life if
the file(s) parse a great deal or otherwise use extensive amounts of memory,
as many must know.

Bob

Mark Wagner <mar### [at] gtenet> wrote in message
news:380d52d2@news.povray.org...
>
> Nieminen Juha wrote in message <380c362a@news.povray.org>...
> >  I was looking through Ken's links and ended up in this page:
> >http://www.io.com/~wwagner/pov.html
> >
> >  I would want to seriously warn about this #exec patch (specially
> >because povray 3.5 might include it).
> >
> >  Povray is currently quite safe to use. You can download a .pov file and
> >render it with povray and the only harm it can do is to create an image
> >file. It just can't do anything else. You can safely render a 10000 lines
> >long pov file without having to worry about what does it contain.
>
>
> Along these lines, it *is* possible to write a POV-Ray virus that infects
> POV scene files.  However, as things stand right now, the incredible disk
> thrashing that would occur as the virus tries to find files to infect
would
> clue anyone in to what is happening.
>
> Mark
>
>

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