Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!apple!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!sunybcs!sbcs!root From: root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: virus, fix for 3000 part 05 of 05 (last) Keywords: no article, just file Message-ID: <1795@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 8 Nov 88 01:51:01 GMT References: <21697@sgi.SGI.COM> Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 7 Just a comment on the distribution medium of your updated sendmail - what prevents one of the backbone sites from modifying your fixed sendmail so as to introduce a trojan horse? I would recommend against this method of distribution, especially for a daemon that normally runs as "root". Rick Spanbauer SUNY/Stony Brook