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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The ultimate fix!!!
Message-ID: <2757@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 6 Oct 88 11:36:17 GMT
References: <8810021843.AA10054@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <8810021843.AA10054@cory.Berkeley.EDU>, dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU
(Matt Dillon) writes about viruses on UNIX:
> 	No need to do that at all... one does not have to write the virus
> in C.  There are a whole host of interpreted languages from the SH or CSH
> to AWK, PEARL, LISP, and others that do not require recompilation.

Well, Perl and Lisp are out... not universally available. Awk differs too
much from version to version. CSH or SH are possibilities. About the only
avenue of attack for a *virus* would be in a sharchive. Remember, it has to
be something that gets passed onto another machine with some frequency.
-- 
		Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
		 Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?