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From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: Questions about UNIX viruses
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In article <11685@dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
>This is not intended as a flame on Robert Raisch; the rumor that the
>finger and sendmail bugs were `well known' goes around regularly, but
>seems to have no real grounds.

The sendmail bug at least was well-known (although it's more of an unwanted
feature than a bug).  I at least knew about it in 1987 and got into a good
deal of trouble over it.
--scott

The finger bug, though, that's tricky.