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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Implications of recent virus (Trojan Horse) attack
Keywords: virus security
Message-ID: <8879@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Nov 88 08:31:26 GMT
References: <1698@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <2151@ficc.uu.net> <8845@smoke.BRL.MIL> <14465@mimsy.UUCP> <8858@smoke.BRL.MIL> <439@auspex.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <439@auspex.UUCP> guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>If that fix is "have 'getpwent()' return NULL if the entry it looks at
>is syntactically incorrect," the fix is simple but rather rude;

That would be rude but it wasn't what I was talking about.
All you really need to do is to skip over a bogus entry and
resynchronize for the next one.