Linux Viruses and Such

• References (cont'd):

• BK2CVS gateway's compromise discovered by Larry McVoy: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0311.0/0621.html

• Fyodor's gentle tutorial on port-scanning: http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap_doc.html

• The Motorola/Xerox saga of “Friar Tuck” and “Robin Hood”, in Appendix A of the Jargon File: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html

• A virus written in TeX by Keith Allen McMillan: ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/doc/viruses/KeithMcMillan-PlatformIndependantVirus.ps

• Alexander Bartolich's ELF Virus Writing HOWTO. (Ego alert: Author cites Rick Moen's Linux virus pages as “inspiring”.) http://virus.enemy.org/virus-writing-HOWTO/_html/index.html

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