Worm bait?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:29:58 -0400
"Johannes B. Ullrich" <jullrich at sans.org> wrote:

> 
> > 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. 
> 
> True. Forgot about all of that. I guess the e-mail flood from Sobig
> and such worked well as brain washing ;-). But there are some decent
> elf infectors out there if anybody is into building Linux viruses.
> Essentially like the early viruses, the code is attaches itself to
> arbitrary binaries and is executed whenever the binary is exectued.
> This type was very common in the DOS area before they got replaced by
> boot sector viruses and later e-mail viruses. I don't exchange much
> floppies these days, so I haven't heard about either a boot sector
> virus in a couple years. I am sure they are still out there.
> 
> But e-mail is a so much faster delivery method.
This is very true. BTW: Dvorak (on PC Mag) is making a proposal that all
PCs be licensed:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1224343,00.asp

Personally, I think Dvorak is an idiot, but he makes a good case for it.



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