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echo: virus_info
to: KURT WISMER
from: ASHER DENSMORE-LYNN
date: 1997-04-23 00:34:00
subject: Linux and viruses...

 KW> no, not just three viruses... my understanding is that it detects all
 KW> ibm pc viruses... linux specific viruses are necessarily file
 KW> infectors, there are plenty of viruses out there that are not file
 KW> system dependant, you'd know them as boot infectors... they affect
 KW> linux systems just as easily as they do dos systems...
Cross-platform infect, MAYBE. Replicate, -never-. At least, not easily.
Anything large enough to do the job would be too big to be a virus.
"Gee, my Linux kernel and COMMAND.COM are both up by 172 kb! Whoa."
 
Asher Densmore-Lynn 
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