Good anti-virus programs for Linux

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, John Whitfield wrote:

> Speaking of the Morris worm, how did it get past the binary
> incompatibilities?  I know it exploited a security hole in the finger
> command (since plugged) to get in, but once it was in, how did it run on
> disparate systems?  Was it scripted?

As I recall from Gene Spafford's analysis back then, the worm propagated
itself as C source and then ran itself through the victim's cc compiler. 

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