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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