If you can get data in to a system, then you can get a virus in. (Re: Virus Attack!) What about brentd at microsoft? What about...

[Peter da Silva]

It'd be pretty damn difficult to get a Worm into Usenet, but a Trojan
Horse would be no problem at all.  I described one a month or so ago under
the title: "The Usenet Virus, a case history". This document purported
to describe a real virus found in comp.sources.* sources at an unidentified
Usenet site. It was, of course, a hoax... and didn't contain any sort of
detail. Apart from the ethical considerations UNIX viri are just too much
work for a joke.

To *really* make it maximally infective, have it look in .mailrc every
time it infected a new program and ship copies of the newly infected
software to everyone offsite you find in it... just like the Christmas
Tree virus.
-- 
Peter da Silva  `-_-'  Ferranti International Controls Corporation
"Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?"     uunet.uu.net!ficc!peter
Disclaimer: My typos are my own damn business.   peter at ficc.uu.net