full-disclosure - Viral infection via Serial Cable

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From: StuartF at datacom.co.nz (Stuart Fox (DSL AK))
Subject: Viral infection via Serial Cable

> 
> 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?
> 

It all really depends on how transport independent the virus/worm is.
If it uses only TCP/IP to transmit itself, and the serial link is using
some other protocol, then the answer is of course no.  If the worm
simply expects to see "a network transport" then the answer would be
yes.