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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin
Subject: If you can get data in to a system, then you
	can get a virus in. (Re: Virus Attack!)
	What about brentd@microsoft? What about...
Summary: USENET is no exception.
	Orson Welles didn't have a real Martian invasion to deal with,
	and I really wish I'd waited a couple of weeks before posting
	my Usenet Virus (hoax?) (parody?)...
Message-ID: <2244@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 16 Nov 88 21:42:28 GMT
References: <35900005@webb> <1988Nov13.205459.23921@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
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It'd be pretty damn difficult to get a Worm into Usenet, but a Trojan
Horse would be no problem at all.  I described one a month or so ago under
the title: "The Usenet Virus, a case history". This document purported
to describe a real virus found in comp.sources.* sources at an unidentified
Usenet site. It was, of course, a hoax... and didn't contain any sort of
detail. Apart from the ethical considerations UNIX viri are just too much
work for a joke.

To *really* make it maximally infective, have it look in .mailrc every
time it infected a new program and ship copies of the newly infected
software to everyone offsite you find in it... just like the Christmas
Tree virus.
-- 
Peter da Silva  `-_-'  Ferranti International Controls Corporation
"Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?"     uunet.uu.net!ficc!peter
Disclaimer: My typos are my own damn business.   peter@ficc.uu.net