Go read e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm for an intro
to the worm and
http://protovision.textfiles.com/100/tr823.txt for
Eugene Spaffords tech report on the little beast.
Facts are wonderful. ;)
88 is a better year and both VAXen and SUNs were affected, not to
mention a great lot of bewildered sysadmins.
/UFO
> ----- Earlier messages, mutilated and all -----
Philip Pemberton wrote:
> > Sure, but C64s, VAXen and such never had any viruses written
> > specifically for them, IIRC. [...]
Then Vassilis Prevelakis answered (touch?)
> 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.
Received on Fri Jun 04 2004 - 13:11:04 BST