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RADAI@vms.huji.ac.il (Y. Radai) writes:

> When I said that companion viruses began to appear only in 1990, I
> meant those which appeared in "the wild".  Correct me if I'm wrong,
> but I don't think that was true of TP_Worm (at least in 1989 and
> probably regardless of date).

Sigh... It depends on the definition of "in the wild"... It has been
"in the wild" in the Technical University of Sofia, at least for a
short time...

Side note... Till now we all thought that PATH companions are just a
theoretical attack and no such viruses exist yet. Looking carefully at
the source of the TP Worm, I see that it has been not only the first
companion virus, but also the first PATH-companion... When it is first
started on a clean system, in its "initial burst", it spreads a lot of
its spoofing bodies in up to 10 randomly selected directories from the
PATH variable...

Regards,
Vesselin
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