peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (11/17/88)
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