question about viruses

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Wed Feb 24 19:07:04 1999

At 20:46 18/02/99 -0500, Will Emerson wrote:

> 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...

Was this the DECnet "connectivity" worm. Run a DECnet task on the local
node to discover all the neighbours, send this information back to the
central system and then start this worm on all neighbour systems? My
recollection was that this was Digital internal only.

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