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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: Untouchable (PC)
- Message-ID: <0004.9212161818.AA12845@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 21:47:17 GMT
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- RADAI@vms.huji.ac.il (Y. Radai) writes:
-
- > When I said that companion viruses began to appear only in 1990, I
- > meant those which appeared in "the wild". Correct me if I'm wrong,
- > but I don't think that was true of TP_Worm (at least in 1989 and
- > probably regardless of date).
-
- Sigh... It depends on the definition of "in the wild"... It has been
- "in the wild" in the Technical University of Sofia, at least for a
- short time...
-
- Side note... Till now we all thought that PATH companions are just a
- theoretical attack and no such viruses exist yet. Looking carefully at
- the source of the TP Worm, I see that it has been not only the first
- companion virus, but also the first PATH-companion... When it is first
- started on a clean system, in its "initial burst", it spreads a lot of
- its spoofing bodies in up to 10 randomly selected directories from the
- PATH variable...
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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