vintage computers and lead poisoning?

From: Vassilis Prevelakis <vp_at_cs.drexel.edu>
Date: Fri Jun 4 12:11:47 2004

Philip Pemberton <philpem_at_dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> Sure, but C64s, VAXen and such never had any viruses written specifically for
> them, IIRC. [...]

VAXen? How about the Morris worm that flooded the Internet back in 86?
It had a specific buffer overflow (for fingerd) that injected vax
machine code onto the stack.

**vp
Received on Fri Jun 04 2004 - 12:11:47 BST

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