[Gllug] Virus or worm?

[Nix]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, bredroll at nereus.host4u.net yowled:
> email viri are a potential threat to unixes, just thinking along the lines
> if something like this could get thru most filters then drop its trojan
> load inside a firewall, possibly take advantage of its new internal
> location and maybe even dos a linux box?

That's a perfectly conventional worm that just happens to use SMTP to
spread.

Email `viruses' (i.e. worms that rely on users' buggy/broken-as-designed
MUAs, and/or on users doing stupid things with those MUAs) are not
likely to take off on Unix, because of the diverse set of MUAs in use.

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