Nieminen Juha wrote in message <380daf31@news.povray.org>...
>Mark Wagner <mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:
>: 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.
>
>  I can't think of any way to do this (at least with the official povray).
>Can you explain me?


I have a virus that will run (almost) in standard POV-Ray.  Should I post
it?

While developing this virus, I found a bug in POV-Ray's string handling
routines -- sometimes a sequence such as "\"\\\\\",\"\\\"\"," will be
incorrectly written to a file.

Mark

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