discuss: Virus-Writing-HOWTO
Subject:
Re: Virus-Writing-HOWTO
From:
Charles Curley ####@####.####
Date:
12 Mar 2002 23:20:19 -0000
Message-Id: <20020312155750.B15561@trib.com>
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:03:06PM +0100, Alexander Bartolich wrote:
> Greg Ferguson wrote:
>
> > [...] my personal feeling is that the document itself appears
> > to be a "cookbook-style guide to destruction".
>
> If you have that feeling then others will have, too.
> So I consider it a major item to fix.
> Because to me the facts tell exactly the opposite.
>
> I'll try to give some reasoning:
Alexander, I've been writing for nigh on 30 years now. I have not yet
looked at your HOWTO, so take this as friendly advice.
When you find yourself explaining things this much to an early
reviewer, you might want to include the explanation in the document
somewhere.
>
> Anyway, for me the lessons are:
>
> + After some RTFM it is amazing how far the tools shipped with
> every distribution can take both offense and defense
> - not written, but implied:
> outlawing "hacking tools" is nonsense
>
> + The popular argument that Linux is a hard target because
> it is an inhomogeneous platform is refuted
> - not yet written: even stronger evidence will follow
> - not written, but implied:
> then it must be something else that makes it hard to kill
>
Good points, and maybe worth making explicit in the document.
> > Even the sarcastic(?) closing remark - "Feel the power
> > of the dark side!" - tends to make me uncomfortable with
> > this type of document (maybe that's a bit harsh;
> > call me prudish, but...).
>
> Ok. That's unnecessary show.
> But then wouldn't you expect something like
>
> 347 |\/|'/ d1c|< j00 c4|\/|p3r!
>
> in this type of document? (just kidding)
>
> Seriously, I hate pedagocical attidute.
> I had fun playing with that stuff, and it should come through.
Indeed, it should. Humor is one of the reliefs of reading LDP and other
Linux doc. But it is dangerous, you have to make sure it comes across
as humor. Again, I haven't read your HOWTO, but Greg has.
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<type 'exceptions.IOError'> | Python 2.5.2: /usr/bin/python
Mon Jul 1 15:13:31 2024 |
A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of
function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main() |
424
|
425 if path is not None:
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426 main_path(path)
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427 else:
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428 main_form()
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| global main_form = <function main_form at 0x93a5c6c> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main_form() |
378 except ImportError:
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379 die(ctxt, "Invalid command")
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380 module.do(ctxt)
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381
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382 def main():
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| module = <module 'commands.showmsg' from '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showmsg.pyc'>, module.do = <function do at 0x93bb6f4>, global ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 10, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'} |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showmsg.py in do(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 10, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}) |
18 write(html('msg-pager') % ctxt)
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19 write('<hr>')
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20 sub_showmsg(ctxt, ctxt[MSGNUM])
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21 write('<hr>')
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22 write(html('msg-pager') % ctxt)
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| global sub_showmsg = <function sub_showmsg at 0x93a51ec>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 10, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, global MSGNUM = 'msgnum' |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showmsg(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 10, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msgnum=2532) |
229 format_timestamp(ctxt, ctxt)
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230 write(html('msg-header') % ctxt)
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231 rec_showpart(ctxt, msg, 0)
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232 write(html('msg-footer') % ctxt)
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233 ctxt.pop()
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| global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0x93a51b4>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 10, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msg = <email.message.Message instance at 0x941cd4c> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 10, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x941cd4c>, partnum=1) |
205 else:
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206 for p in part.get_payload():
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207 partnum = rec_showpart(ctxt, p, partnum+1)
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208 else:
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209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)
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| partnum = 1, global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0x93a51b4>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 10, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, p = <email.message.Message instance at 0x941cfec> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 10, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x941cfec>, partnum=2) |
208 else:
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209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)
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210 sub_showpart(ctxt, part)
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211 return partnum
|
212
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| global sub_showpart = <function sub_showpart at 0x93a5144>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 10, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part = <email.message.Message instance at 0x941cfec> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 10, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x941cfec>) |
164 type = ctxt[TYPE] = part.get_content_type()
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165 ctxt[FILENAME] = part.get_filename()
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166 template = html('msg-' + type.replace('/', '-'))
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167 if not template:
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168 template = html('msg-' + type[:type.find('/')])
|
| global template = <function template at 0x939de9c>, global html = <function html at 0x939ded4>, type = 'application/pgp-signature', type.replace = <built-in method replace of str object at 0x941ed40> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in html(name='msg-application-pgp-signature') |
40
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41 def html(name):
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42 return template(name + '.html')
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43
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44 def xml(name):
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| global template = <function template at 0x939de9c>, name = 'msg-application-pgp-signature' |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in template(filename='msg-application-pgp-signature.html') |
31 except IOError:
|
32 if not _template_zipfile:
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33 _template_zipfile = zipfile.ZipFile(sys.argv[0])
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34 try:
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35 f = _template_zipfile.open(n).read()
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| global _template_zipfile = None, global zipfile = <module 'zipfile' from '/usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.pyc'>, zipfile.ZipFile = <class zipfile.ZipFile at 0x9336a7c>, global sys = <module 'sys' (built-in)>, sys.argv = ['-c', '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20'] |
| /usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py in __init__(self=<zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0x93bea8c>, file='-c', mode='r', compression=0, allowZip64=False) |
337 self.filename = file
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338 modeDict = {'r' : 'rb', 'w': 'wb', 'a' : 'r+b'}
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339 self.fp = open(file, modeDict[mode])
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340 else:
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341 self._filePassed = 1
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| self = <zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0x93bea8c>, self.fp = None, builtin open = <built-in function open>, file = '-c', modeDict = {'a': 'r+b', 'r': 'rb', 'w': 'wb'}, mode = 'r' |
<type 'exceptions.IOError'>: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '-c'
args =
(2, 'No such file or directory')
errno =
2
filename =
'-c'
message =
''
strerror =
'No such file or directory'
