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A Platform Independent Computer Virus


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By: Keith Allen McMillan, 04/27/2004



A master's thesis on construction of a platform independent computer virus. Not as scary as it sounds, since the virus infects TeX documents, and uses GNU Emacs as a "help app", but it does serve to illustrate the point. Still, why haven't we seen TeX or troff macro viruses? Could it be that Unix/Linux/BSD aren't truly as susceptible as Windows/DOS is to file infector viruses?

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