Implications of recent virus (Trojan Horse) attack

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Thu Nov 17 07:40:46 AEST 1988


In article <270 at popvax.harvard.edu> mohamed at popvax.UUCP (R06400 at Mohamed Ellozy) writes:
-This is what irritates the living daylights out of so many of us.
-He "knows" of at least three other such holes.  He is thus more
-learned, perhaps even wiser, than we are.
-	BUT WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING TO GET THEM CLOSED???
-Wizards who "know" about problems and pride themselves about it, but
-do nothing, are little better than those who mailiciously exploit them.

The BSD developers know of all three holes and have published fixes for
two of them.  BRL's network host tester will probe for them and inform
system administrators if they have these holes.

I'm waiting for an apology.



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