Benjamin Geer on Sat, 13 May 2000 13:56:00 +0200 (CEST) |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Viruses on the Internet: Monoculture breeds parasites |
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 01:16:26PM -0400, Felix Stalder wrote: > There are many other ways to create and spread viruses than as email > attachments. A recent post in Phil Agre's RRE describes a virus that would > run on any machine and does not need users to activate it. I have read the description of this virus, and I remain sceptical. The author says that the virus is packaged as a shell script, but he doesn't say how it's distributed, or how it arranges to be executed. He mentions a buffer-overflow vulnerability in PINE, which (as he admits) was corrected long ago. This is the key point. Regardless of how sophisticated a virus is at doing its work without being noticed, that sophistication is useless if the virus is never executed. Benjamin Geer _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold