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Re: Culprit Bio: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead?
From: "Eric Knight" <eric () swordsoft com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:39:58 -0700
I'm a Forth programming, but not by profession. And anybody that's taken compiler construction, advanced data structures class, or ever attemtped to create any form of intepreted scripting language that's capable of handling such as simple concept as 1+2*3 and converting it into reverse polish could do it... Or for that matter, anyone who ever programmed or use an HP Caclulcator back in the late 80's, early 90's. Not to mention TinyMUCKs. You're looking at an audience of about 5,000,000 people that have proper enough exposure to Forth and its particular properties that make it a simple to program, easy to implement lightweight language and could have used that exposure to select it for MyDoom. Eric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenton Smith" <ksmith () chartwelltechnology com> To: "Clairmont, Jan" <JMC13 () mail3 cs state ny us> Cc: <full-disclosure () lists netsys com> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:25 PM Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] Culprit Bio: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead?
If you're a FORTH programmer, can you comment on the validity of this? "It was also unknown that the virus infects the BIOS of the computer it infects by injecting a 624bytes backdoor written in FORTH which will open port tcp when Mydoom will be executed AFTER febuary 12." I'm not a programmer, nor am I a BIOS expert, but this seems bogus to me. Kenton On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 11:04, Clairmont, Jan wrote: <snip>If there are a 1000 Forth programmers in the world I would be surprised. They would need communications knowledge, programming, being one myself there are not too many of those. This narrows the gene pool
significantly
if anyone in the know is searching.<snip> _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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Current thread:
- RE: Culprit Bio: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead? Clairmont, Jan (Jan 29)
- RE: Culprit Bio: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead? Kenton Smith (Jan 29)
- Re: Culprit Bio: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead? Eric Knight (Jan 29)
- RE: Culprit Bio: Perfect Storm Averted or Just Ahead? Kenton Smith (Jan 29)