What is the potential of having a virus infect a UNIX or NT
firewall?
I can think of various (non-proxy) programs on a firewall
that exchange data directly with the net: SMTP/SMAP (MIME),
NTP, DNS, finger responses, etc. I am not sure if you
can connect to a firewall and 'place' a (binary) virus
using one of these services.
I believe DNS only accepts ASCII data, but imagine if there
were such a thing as a DNS virus!
I've had experiences with viruses (ex: NOINT, Stealth) on
desktop PCs, once the 'Stealth' virus killed off boot
sector/partition table of a disks, forcing me to replace
the disks of 10 new PCs.
Bill
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