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From: rms at computerbytesman.com (Richard M. Smith) Subject: Tracking a virus by logging infected machines Hi Jason, >>> Is there any way to determine who the winner is? Not that I want to encourage virus writing, but I think it would be very helpful to gather infection statistics if a virus were to keep a log of the IP addresses of all the machines it infected. The log could be appended to the end of the executable file of the virus. Each copy of a worm or virus would contain a record of one branch of the tree of infected machines. To make a log easy to locate and extract, the log can start with an easily identified string such as "VIRUS INFECTION LOG\n". IP addresses should be recorded in ASCII with a \n between each IP address. Richard
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