Worm bait?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:05:15 -0400
"Johannes B. Ullrich" <jullrich at sans.org> wrote:

> Virus: Malware that uses e-mail to propagate and usually requires at
> least that you as a user load it into your MUA. Does not always
> require'opening'. But for example, it will not propagate if you keep
> it sitting on your mail server.
Viruses, Trojans and Worms do not require email (although email is the
most common way today) to infect systems. I have seen viruses embedded
in commercial software (that is rare today though). But, these all can
cause a system to become infected by even using an infected diskette. 

While most affect Windows systems, there are Unix, Linux and Mac worms
and viruses, and the first worm in 1988 was indeed a Unix worm. 


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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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