On 10/13/07, Inventor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the reassurance that there *should* be no such > thing as a text file virus.
Sure, there are text file viruses. Sorry to burst your bubble. There are lots of text-only viruses. Every powerful scripting system is vulnerable to viral code. HyperCard had viruses. Excel macros have had viruses. They've been written in BASIC. I've never yet heard of a Perl virus, but there are at least 100 people reading this message who could write one in less than an hour. It doesn't take talent, in a good programming language. Having said all that, though: It would be a real feat (although still not impossible) to disguise any malware to look like normal Perl code and plain text files, and then further to trick you into incorporating the malware into your distribution. Unless there are powerful and talented adversaries involved (and yet, they weren't powerful and talented enough to work around your client's virus checker, were they?), it's not worth thinking about. Cheers! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
