Questions about UNIX viruses

[Scott Dorsey]

In article <11685 at dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek at elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
>This is not intended as a flame on Robert Raisch; the rumor that the
>finger and sendmail bugs were `well known' goes around regularly, but
>seems to have no real grounds.

The sendmail bug at least was well-known (although it's more of an unwanted
feature than a bug).  I at least knew about it in 1987 and got into a good
deal of trouble over it.
--scott

The finger bug, though, that's tricky.