Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!alberta!ubc-cs!ugly.cs.ubc.ca!manderso From: manderso@ugly.cs.ubc.ca (mark c anderson) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: .ZIP Ansi codes Message-ID: <2179@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: 7 Jun 89 22:03:05 GMT References: Sender: news@cs.ubc.ca Reply-To: manderso@ugly.cs.ubc.ca (mark c anderson) Distribution: na Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 19 In article JFORD1@UA1VM.BITNET (James Ford) writes: >Original-From: Sysop Of 107/522 >Original-Subject: .ZIP Utility ALERT >[...] > As most of you know it is possible to reprogram your keyboard (and >other things) using ANSI Escape sequences... .ZIP programs will allow >the use of ANSI in the comments section... I have received several such >"innocent looking" files in the last two weeks. One caused my F1 key to >display a wide DOS Directory, the other attempted to delete all files on >my hard drive! Of course, such tricks are hardly confined to ZIP comments. Anything that might be printed on the screen is a candidate -- even a text file, for instance. But putting these codes in the comments field of an archive is pretty sneaky. And they get a wide distribution, too. --- Mark Anderson {att!alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}!ubc-cs!ubc-ugly!manderso jr yrg gur jrveqarff va