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From: dmr@pla...
Subject: Re: [9fans] on the topic of viruses
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 00:33:42 -0400

 > apparently point 18 in the references section of "Multilevel Security in
 > the UNIX Tradition" ( http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/163c.ps.gz)
 > lists a paper by tom duff called "Experience with Viruses on UNIX
 > Systems" (Computer Systems 2, 1989), which apparently tells the tale of
 > this very same virus you were discussing today...

 > i can't find the paper unfortunately, but it definitely sounds
 > interesting

I've been interested in this too, though until now I've
never asked TD about it directly (but just did).

I retrieved the internal tech-memo version of Duff's paper
from the BL library's collection.  It's a big page-scan
(768KB in PDF).  Usenix doesn't seem to have the published
version.

For the moment, it's available at
 www.cs.bell-labs-com/~dmr/tdvirus.pdf

If Tom objects, I'll withdraw it.  But it's a nice paper.

	Dennis