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  1. May 22nd, 2002, 06:45 AM #1
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    Question 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?
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  2. May 22nd, 2002, 06:51 AM #2
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    well it would be exactly like any virus..
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  3. May 22nd, 2002, 07:19 AM #3
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    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
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  4. May 22nd, 2002, 08:11 AM #4
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    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.
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  6. May 22nd, 2002, 01:23 PM #5
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    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.
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  7. May 27th, 2002, 08:25 AM #6
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    I think that's too much TV for you.
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  8. May 27th, 2002, 08:36 AM #7
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    i agree with feind.... TV screws with your mind. lol
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