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From: lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Unix Virus hits Murray Hill
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Date: 21 May 88 06:09:50 GMT
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In <5623@cup.portal.com>, doug-merritt@cup.portal.com writes:
> ... a certain person at Sun was *extremely* touchy about my posting ...

Not altogether surprising. Turn it around and squint a little to get a
better perspective, like: "Rumor has it that someone in Doug Merrit's
family was responsible for malisciously bringing down an entire network."

>So what I want to know is, why did some people at Sun and Murray Hill
>think something might happen? Sounds a little like getting an anonymous
>bomb threat. My friend at Murray Hill wants to know why the rest of
>the world wasn't warned, also, but I'd say that's debatable...why worry
>people over what might be nothing? Maybe someone started the whole thing
>as a hoax. Worked as far as Sun Front Line Consulting is concerned...

Well, I can't speak for the people at Murray Hill or Sun who may have
thought something was going to happen last Friday, but there was a story
some time ago about a virus/bomb planted in a university (Hebrew
University? Can't remember details), that was supposedly going to trigger
on May 13. Could it be that the story got blown out of proportion?
(nawww... couldn't have anything out of proportion on _this_ net could we?)
Or perhaps someone spread additional rumors, capitalizing on the original
story. Whatever the reason for the scare, it didn't come to pass, which is
A Good Thing. Having it reported as having come to pass is, of course, A
Bad Thing, as you have noted and apologized for.

-larry

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