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Date Posted: 21:25:30 07/16/01 Mon
Author: Wayne
Subject: By the way..

Nuking people through e-mail is impossible. Nukes are OOB (Out of Boundary) Data that causes the computer to attempt to read it, and it can't, therefore causing it to clean it's memory. Summary: It can't read the nuke, and reboots. E-mails can't handle OOB data, as they are text communications and OOB data is not text. Nuking someone requires sending this OOB data directly to the computer through your own computer, leaving you open to tracking methods. Nuking also requires you to have the Internet Provider's address for you, allowing you to have a direct connection. Summary: E-mails can't hold nukes, to nuke someone you connect to their computer and send the nuke through your computer to theirs. Worms are different from OOB data, which I was referring to. Worms are bits of data that imbed themself within the e-mail itself, acting as a seperate file which opens automatically when you open the e-mail. Worms also have the potentiality to erase hard-drives, and send themselves to all on the address book. Fortunately Hotmail, which is run on a Linux server, takes all the data besides the text and calls it a separate file. Therefore, if you were to send a worm to hotmail it would read as a separate file, and only the reciever could unleash the virus on himself. Better?

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Re: By the way.. -- corinne, 17:33:26 07/31/01 Tue