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SubjectRe: Virus on Linux
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Martin von Loewis <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
> only do what a the user executing it can do. Usually, that puts a limit
> on spreading the virus. For example, it can't infect /usr/bin, as the
> user can't write the files over there.

I suggest you look up an old Usenix proceedings, circa 1989 or
thereabouts, for a paper by Duff of Bell Labs Murray Hill, regarding
his alarmingly too-successful efforts in manufacturing viri.

The ability of a virus to spread on machines with a substantial
programmer population is...annoyingly great.

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