[Full-Disclosure] Tracking a virus by logging infected machines

[Richard M. Smith]

Hi Jason,

   >>> Is there any way to determine who the winner is?

Not that I want to encourage virus writing, but I think it would be very
helpful to gather infection statistics if a  virus were to keep a log of
the IP addresses of all the machines it infected.  The log could be
appended to the end of the executable file of the virus.  Each copy of a
worm or virus would contain a record of one branch of the tree of
infected machines.  

To make a log easy to locate and extract, the log can start with an
easily identified string such as "VIRUS INFECTION LOG\n".  IP addresses
should be recorded in ASCII with a \n between each IP address.  

Richard