vintage computers and lead poisoning?

From: Huw Davies <huw.davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Mon Jun 7 07:07:49 2004

On 5 Jun 2004, at 03:11, Vassilis Prevelakis wrote:

> 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.

Of course, this only applied to those infidels who thought VAXen could
run something other than VAX/VMS :-)

Of course, there was the infamous DECnet worm but that's another
story....

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