question about viruses

From: Will Emerson <wpe101_at_banet.net>
Date: Thu Feb 18 19:46:11 1999

Allison,
   Do you remember a worm that some sysadmin (North, South Carolina or
someplace like
that?) turned loose on his systems, back around 89-90, and _forgot_ to
isolate his network from the general DECnet? I sure do.. Spent most of a
Sunday with _that_ _one_... Those good old LA100's spitting so many
SECURPAK alarms that they basically
brought many VAXclusters to their knees...

                                                        Will


Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> <The first article I ever read on computer viruses was in the Los Angeles
> <Times in 1986. In fact, I clipped and saved this article (and many
> <others) and still have it in a file folder laying on a shelf in my bedroom
> <closet.
>
> They are far older.
>
> <The author then accurately predicted the explosion of computer virus
> <attacks. In 1986 I was just playing around with computer timebombs on the
> <Apple ][ (one of my dumb friends actually used my program on an
> <unsuspecting fellow computer class student and got reamed out pretty good
> <by the teacher) but viruses were pretty scarce. A few years later and
> <they started to become a major nuisance.
>
> The first one I know of ram on TOPS-10 V3.x and was a monitor virus (using
> modern terms). It was a hack to open the security door. That done we
> created cancer that was a program that did nothing except copy itself.
>
> that was back around '71. There were telco virus as well in teh 70s with
> the advent of ESS.
>
> back in late '69 on a PDP-8I we ran a Trogen Hourse to get passwords and
> spoof people (written in pal-III!).
>
> Allison
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