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From: 76476.337@CompuServe.COM (Robert McClenon)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Virus Prosecutions
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Date: 27 Dec 90 04:20:35 GMT
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	I read in a recent issue of VIRUS-L that the author of the
Scores virus is being prosecuted under a Texas statute.  I have a
question.  Have there been any previous prosecutions of the authors
of viruses, strictly defined?  The Morris Internet worm was similar
to a virus in terms of being a computer crime not enriching the
perpetator, but was a worm rather than a virus.  If there have been
any previous virus prosecutions (or civil actions), what was the
outcome?
	Thank you.

			Robert McClenon