Well, sure. All internet-exposed services are vulnerable to any number of malware attacks. The difference with something like Slammer is that it had to access the server with specifically-crafted malware that would trick the server software into doing something evil, in this case, replicating and propagating the slammer virus. That was a flaw that could be patched.

In the case of VFP DBFs, there's no server to talk to. These are just files on disk, and can be overwritten by anyone who has proper read/write rights. That's a different level of insecure.

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:

Someone was asking recently if database servers like MSSQL were inherently more safe from malware than DB files. Well, there was SQL Slammer ....

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/05/sql_slammer_back/

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