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Re: Viral infection via Serial Cable
From: "J.A. Terranson" <measl () mfn org>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:17:38 -0500 (CDT)
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Jean Gruneberg wrote:
So the question is, is a pc / machine connected to another pc via serial cable only using specialised windows software to move data to the machine at all vulnerable to viruses? Can they transmit themselves across a serial cable?
You are confusing the different layers. There is no difference (to a virus) between a fiber, a cat-5, a serial cable, etc. These are all layer-1 choices. Moving up the stack, the answer to your question is a qualified "yes": if the serial port is configured as a data transport which the virus can see, then propagation across it is possible. And, for the record, there are a variety of serial-port based LANs.
Jean
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