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From: pg9065@computing.bradford.ac.uk (Paul)
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Subject: Re: UNIX & Viruses (UNIX)
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Date: 16 Apr 91 20:00:20 GMT
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ethan@thinc.COM (Ethan.Lish@THINC.COM) writes:
>	The simplest form of a *NIX virus is :
>			cp $0 .
>	Now *every* *NIX platform I know of will run this "virus"
> P.S. **NOTE DO NOT RUN THIS VIRUS, SO I DON'T HAVE TO SAY "I TOLD YOU SO"**

Ooops, just ran it!

It said "No file for $0.".

Thats on Sun OS 4.1 running csh.

Just how is cp $0 . supposed to be a virus? Even if $0 was defined to
something valid all it would do is copy a file into your current directory.

Paul Sutton
Department of Computing, University of Bradford, Bradford, BD7 1DP, UK
p.c.sutton@bradford.ac.uk