Packet Virus

Please don't flame me for this it is just a theory and I would like to get opinions from people who know more then me. Would it be possible to create a virus that attaches itself to packets being sent to and from computers? If so wouldn't this be an extreamly dangerous virus? :eek:

well it would be exactly like any virus..

You should really read up on packets before you ask such things... See, a single packet isn't big enough to carry ANY code... Its only when they're merged back together on the other end, and sending a virus in multiple packets is the way it usually works anyway

Yeah, having a 'virus on packets' is sort of like trying to spread novel in the margins of a series of postcards...

Basic answer: No. Even if you could send the actual information comprising viral activity, at the other end it wouldn't be interpreted that way.

I had an idea like that ounce but mine was a trojan horse, like when a system is compramised on the back bone of a network, a sniffer is employed, and the packets that comethrough are encoded with the daemon. Good idea but not possible with the current form the internet works.

I think that's too much TV for you.

i agree with feind.... TV screws with your mind. lol