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From: V2002A@TEMPLEVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: viruses that reprogram ANSI keys
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Date: 2 Aug 89 11:56:19 GMT
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Hi, Just a quick note about viruses that reprogram keys to do
nasty things.  Several good terminal emulation packages have a
feature that allows you to 'lock out' any host generated key
redefinitions.  With Persofts Smarterm 220/240 series of programs
you can set the 'User Features Locked' and the program will ignore
all attempts to reprogram the keys with escape sequences.

Andy Wing     V2002A@TEMPLEVM.BITNET

[Ed. Not bad, but does MS-DOS's ANSI.SYS allow to lock out these
sequences?  I don't believe that it does.  If not, escape codes
imbedded in documentation, for example, can do a lot...]