Acidus wrote:
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] Imagine a virus that exploits a box, searchs for specific
] data, send it to you, patch the hole the came in with, and
] moves to the next computer.

Or, rather than patching the hole, remains dormant waiting for a new search string

... or, better yet, don't patch, but leave a flag indicating what search strings have been searched for on what dates, then remove itself (avoids re-infection and minimizes run time and bandwith use == less likely to catch attention from AV firms)

The problem then becomes where to distribute the harvested info to and from the distribution center unnoticed.

RE: Data crawling viruses