"SETI Hacker" hypothesis: Keeping Watch for Interstellar Computer Viruses

Could a signal from the stars broadcast by an alien intelligence also carry harmful information, in the spirit of a computer virus?

Get your space condoms ready and find out here:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/space_hackers_031111.html

We say in Spanish (Probably loses most of its pun in the translation):
"No body is more jealous than an unfaithful husband"

That paranoid fear of ill intent only reflects the evil in their souls.

hehe broadcasted viruses :P
i hardly think aliens uses PE structure as thier pirmary executable image hehe :P

Why wouldn't they use PE ? When you see that in Independance Day they're using TCP-IP for managing the mothership's intranet ...

Errrrrrrrr.......

If they are broadcasting/using some kind of prog
it has to be open source.
Then again, even if it is open source, Billy will sue them

Woodmann

To sue them, Billy has to get personal jurisdiction over them, which requires that they be "personally served' with legal process. So Billy will first have to invent a space vehicle fast enough to catch one of the "intruders" and then force entry and have the papers handed (assuming they have hands, of course) to one of them. No wait. Billy IS an alien. Maybe that house he had built into the mountain side really IS his space ship!

Regards.