Klarinet Archive - Posting 000375.txt from 2002/10

From: "James Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] ...for the moment
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 23:54:49 -0400

If you're talking about the screen after screen of full lines of seemingly
random letters & numbers, I >think< that those are uncompiled UUCODE.
(Someone will probably correct me if I'm wrong) but I understand this works,
usually with an outside program, that uses those letters to compile an
executable file. I had a friend who worked with UNIX and the best I
understand, this can work like ZIP files, as well, splitting the file into
64 k per file. I've got several of these in the last few months, and I
wonder if there's some way that they've made it self-compiling, turning a
few pages of gobblygook into a virus.

(Corrections and/or amplifications welcome.)

Jim

>From: "fred.sheim" <fred.sheim@-----.net>
>
>Are these messages From: you To: you and with a body consisting of
>garbage characters?

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