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title: Airborne viruses
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- work
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- security
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[They've finally done it][1].  [Dave][2] and I have long speculated that a "virus platform" that spreads silently but prepares a machine to be infected by plug-ins was inevitable.  Now, Windows users had best hope they don't implement any of the mischievous plug-ins we imagined (e.g. pepper the Office spell check dictionary with misspellings, randomly transpose characters in variable names when copy and pasting in IDEs, etc.)

   [1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/08/technology/08trojan.html?ex=1386219600&en=fc2a920c196b88ca&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND
   [2]: http://xot.sf.net/blog/
