Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!bbn!diamond.bbn.com!mlandau From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: The virus Message-ID: <12090@jade.BBN.COM> Date: 4 Nov 88 01:18:03 GMT References: <5311@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Reply-To: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation, Cambridge, MA Lines: 6 The virus also appears to try to compile things in /tmp or /usr/tmp. One thing you can do is move /bin/cc to some other name, and install a shell script in /bin/cc that checks to see if it's being invoked from within one of your temp directories. This will help catch the virus as it tries to infect a new system.