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[linux-security] Re: Linux virus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bud Rogers)
Tue Feb 4 16:19:48 1997
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 11:36:17 -0600 (CST)
From: Bud Rogers <budr@twocups.tanet.net>
To: linux-security@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970131223429.24033C-100000@ne01.northeast.net>
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
> On one hand I don't like to approve this until Peter has verified this,
> but on the other hand if there is really a linux-virus on the loose, you
> all would like to hear about it ASAP right? -- REW]
I don't know about anybody else, but I would. I was under the impression
that *nix didn't/couldn't HAVE viri. Is this a new development, or have I
been blissfully ignorant all this time?
Bud Rogers <budr@tanet.net>
[Mod: Unix viruses are possible and they do exist. The most famous one if I
remember correctly was designed by Tompson(? Don't quote me on the name) to
infect cc and login programs in Bell Labs. The virus never made it to
outside world -- alex]
