A Platform Independent Computer Virus

Author: Keith Allen McMillan Published May 1, 2011 from Master's Thesis

A master's thesis on construction of a platform independent computer virus. Not as scary as it sounds, since the virus infects TeX documents, and uses GNU Emacs as a "help app", but it does serve to illustrate the point. Still, why haven't we seen TeX or troff macro viruses? Could it be that Unix/Linux/BSD aren't truly as susceptible as Windows/DOS is to file infector viruses?