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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The virus
Message-ID: <13091@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 88 23:17:56 GMT
References: <5311@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <2072@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <241@ispi.UUCP> <11581@bellcore.bellcore.com> <5330@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
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As quoted from <5330@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford):
+---------------
| In article <11581@bellcore.bellcore.com> karn@jupiter.UUCP (Phil R. Karn) writes:
| >It sure would be nice if Morris (or someone at Cornell with access to his
| >files) were to release the complete, original source for the object portion
| >of the virus.  
| 
| Good heavens, no!  At least, it shouldn't be widely published!  The
| virus, as is, needs only a few small changes and it could be sent out
| again to infect all those systems that don't have all the necessary
| patches in place.  Plus, there are other "backdoors" (known and not yet
| known) into systems that could be added in.  The result could be a real
| mess if someone else decides to try a "better" version of the worm.
+---------------

G*d, yes!  Anyone who disbelieves this should look up the history of the
"nVIR" virus family on the Macintosh.  And *that* started out as a PUBLISHED
EXAMPLE of a POTENTIAL security hole!!!

++Brandon
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