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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
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Subject: Re: *NIX virus... necessary knowledge. (UNIX)
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Date: 20 Dec 90 10:32:19 GMT
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dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>There are many different types of machines running different types of
>UNIX.  For this reason it is very unlikely that a UNIX virus could
>ever become as widespread as an IBM/MS-DOS virus, for example.

Ah - no problem - just make the virus contain the C source to itself,
and insert it into the C programs it finds..... :-)

Merry Christmas, everyone....

- -frisk

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