Good anti-virus programs for Linux

Scott Lanning slanning at buphy.bu.edu
Mon Aug 30 10:38:46 EDT 1999


John Whitfield wrote:
>Speaking of the Morris worm, how did it get past the binary
>incompatibilities?  I know it exploited a security hole in the
>finger command (since plugged) to get in, but once it was in, how
>did it run on disparate systems?  Was it scripted?

It was binary. It seems to've only run on BSD/SunOS; q.v.,
http://www.mmt.bme.hu/~kiss/docs/opsys/worm.html
It has pretty good detail (but not sourcecode..).

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