Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: other ways for viral injection ? Message-ID: <0006.9007301317.AA00380@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 27 Jul 90 14:56:16 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 17 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu lath@geocub.greco-prog.fr (Laurent Lathieyre) writes: > Alike, did some Trojan horses be discovered in some > operating systems ? I wonder if operating systems shouldn't > preferably be delivered in source form rather than in > compiled form... (a) You need *some* executable code to get it up the first time. (b) There is no theoretical reason you can't put a virus in source code. I first brought this point up in a "hoax" posting a few weeks before the Internet Worm showed up (and when lots of people were saying that you couldn't do a UNIX virus). It's been reposted on virus-l, and I'm sure it's in the archives. - -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`