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April 24, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Holy Inverse Function, Batman!! A virus for MATLAB!
Math geeks the world over will no doubt be looking crosswise at suspicious m-file attachments now that Finnish antivirus firm F-Secure has identified the first ever self replicating virus for Matlab, the super sophisticated technical computing software by Mathworks.
According to an entry in F-Secure's blog, "Bagoly" is a virus written in Matlab, the programming language used by Mathworks products. The virus infects Matlab "m files" by adding its own replication code to the beginning of other m-files it finds on an infected system.
Fear not, this isn't spreading in the wild (read: "home grown")and doesn't do anything more nasty than spread itself around, F-Secure said.
No word yet from Mathworks on this development -- but if a computer virus writer could harness the minds of the worlds leading engineers and mathematicians, just imagine the destruction that would be caused!!
(To be continued...)
Posted by Paul Roberts on April 24, 2006 08:02 AM
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