Hi,
Golf is not practised only in Perl circles. It has become the pastime
of virus and worm writers, too:
Internet Worm Name Risk Assessment
W32/SQLSlammer.worm Corporate User: High
Home User : Low-Profiled
Internet Worm Information
Discovery Date: 01/25/2003
Origin: Unknown
Length: 376 byte data stream
Type: Internet Worm
SubType: SQL worm
For more details see: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99992.htm
Here is an excerpt of NAI's description (they acknowledge the golfing
effort, too):
This virus exists only in memory of unpatched Microsoft SQL
servers. Its purpose is simply to spread from one system
to another and it does not carry a destructive payload.
[...]
The malformed packet is only 376 bytes long (which is the full
worm!) and carries the following strings:
"h.dllhel32hkernQhounthickChGetTf", "hws2", "Qhsockf", "toQhsend".
The minimal risk for this worm has been set to Low-Profile
because of the media attention at CNN.
The MD5 checksum of the worm (376 bytes) is
A0AA4A74B70CBCA5A03960DF1A3DC878.
When will we see a virus that's shorter than its MD5 hash?
--
Philippe "BooK" Bruhat
None suffer so much in a war as those who strive to end it.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #51 (Epic))
