[techtalk] Question for the group

[Kelly Lynn Martin]

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:27:41 -0600, "Clare Smith" <claresmith at pcisys.net> said:

>One of my unix students ask me if unix/linux had the same plethora of
>viruses that Windows/NT has. While I couldn't sight any statistics, I
>said I hadn't heard of any successful unix/linux viruses. I did some
>research this morning and still can't come up with any hard data. Any
>ideas?

The first example that comes to mind would be the infamous Internet
Worm of 1988, which exploited a buffer overrun bug in sendmail and
fingerd for VAX-based UNIX machines.

Kelly

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