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To: Mephisto who wrote (23463)	11/28/1999 1:38:00 AM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Mephisto- Solaris didn't send a virus to anyone. It APPEARS as if some Crapware VIRUSscan software is seeing a StarOffice "word" format file as having a macro trojan horse or virus, probably because StarOffice doesn't actually use that macro language. That's what it looks like; StarOffice "word" format showing a false positive to Virus software. On the other hand, maybe Marco is doing something somewhat more ambitious... <g> -JCJ

To: Mephisto who wrote (23463)	11/28/1999 1:49:00 AM
From: Robert	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Unix viruses.... I probably should not be writing this, but if you look at the book "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Clifford Stoll he tells of the first large scale Unix network meltdown in the early days of the web. There is a editor on Unix called Emacs that has a "shell" mode, that if incorrectly used can be used to attain superuser permission. The virus written would use Emacs to attain superuser permission, and then to use the local .rhosts file to copy itself to other machines on the network so that it can propagate itself. For practical reasons, writing viruses on Unix are far more difficult than to do on Windows machines and not as much fun.