Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!tank!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Potential impact of internet worm Message-ID: <0002.8911271233.AA05551@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 22 Nov 89 17:44:00 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 8 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu Gene Spafford notes that the Morris worm (I still prefer to call it a virus; afterall, it DID use the machinery of what it was infecting to propagate itself) only infected 5% of the machines on a known-to-be-insecure net. It was stopped because it was noticed. It was noticed because of bugs that made it replicate much faster than was intended. Has anyone estimated how far it would have gotten had those bugs not been there, i.e., if it had replicated so slowly as not to be noticed? Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com