Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:1887 comp.unix.wizards:13296 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!munnari!otc!softway!necisa!boyd From: boyd@necisa.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Trojan horse possible with news readers Message-ID: <534@necisa.necisa.oz> Date: 7 Dec 88 01:03:48 GMT References: <6775@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> <1261@vsi1.UUCP> <576@auspex.UUCP> Organization: NEC Information Systems Australia Pty. Ltd. Lines: 20 Reply-To: In article <576@auspex.UUCP> guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes: > > >I don't believe that those braindamaged versions of vi will execute: > > > >> ex:!sh -c 'echo any command'>/tmp/NEWSBUG: > >They will (I tried it). And it does on Sys V2.2 -- yuk! And you can't unset modeline, 'cos vi claims there isn't such an option. My kingdom for sam! And, a jerq! Boyd Roberts NEC Information Systems Australia boyd@necisa.necisa.oz ``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''