frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) (02/08/91)
I often receive samples containing new viruses by E-mail, or programs suspected of being viruses or Trojans. To get the samples across, the files are encoded into printable form, often by the UUENCODE program. However, if the person sending the file is at a BITNET site, the UUencoded file will arrive corrupted. So, if you are sending binary files between Internet and Bitnet machines and want to make sure they arrive OK - please don't use UUencode - it is useless - use XXencode instead. If anyone does not have xxencode.c or xxdecode.c, I will be happy to send out copies of the programs. - -frisk Fridrik Skulason University of Iceland | Technical Editor of the Virus Bulletin (UK) | Reserved for future expansion E-Mail: frisk@rhi.hi.is Fax: 354-1-28801 |