POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.advanced-users: WARNING: #exec and safety: Re: WARNING: #exec and safety

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : WARNING: #exec and safety : Re: WARNING: #exec and safety		Server Time 30 Jul 2024 14:29:51 EDT (-0400)

From: Remco de Korte
Date: 26 Oct 1999 09:49:16
Message: <3815B171.2E67CC54@xs4all.nl>

Ron Parker wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:03:19 +0200, Markus Becker wrote:
> >Ron Parker wrote:
> >> Seriously, folks, consider this:
> >>
> >> #fopen FILE "c:\\autoexec.bat" append
> >
> >what's "autoexec.bat"?
> 
> For that matter, what's "c:\\"?
> 
> Of course we could modify it to
> 
> #fopen FILE "~/.login" append
> 
> and have it write "cd ~\nrm -rf * >/dev/null\n" instead.
> 

I don't think a virus has to be cross-platform to do damage.

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