Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Virus on Linux | From | Karl Kleinpaste <> | Date | 14 Jan 1998 20:42:44 -0500 |
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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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