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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The ultimate fix!!!
Message-ID: <8810062045.AA04638@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 6 Oct 88 20:45:32 GMT
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: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.
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:		Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
:		 Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?

	Ever hear of network viri?  Just about every server in existance
is buggy, from FTP to SMTP to FINGER.  Do you want to guess how many bugs
exist in UUCP implementations?  BITNET?  *ARPA*net?  There is no
authentication over the ARPAnet!  Now you know why the pentagon doesn't
run FINGER servers.

	In anycase, SH and CSH are the most likely.  Hardly possibilities...
more like guarentees.  Of course, nobody ever said that a virus had to be
system portable, eh?

	Security is a figment of our imaginations.  As the defense department
and univerisities all over the nation have found out, the only reasonably
secure system is an isolated one.

					-Matt