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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.misc,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Usenet Virus: a case history.
Keywords: Orson Welles
Message-ID: <12840@oberon.USC.EDU>
Date: 16 Oct 88 08:26:37 GMT
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In article <2836@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>			The Usenet virus: a case history.
>				(A cautionary tale).

The description fits pretty much the model of virus described in Fred Cohen's
thesis (date: 1983) and in fact more than one of very similar UNIX viruses
were built as part of "student projects" at USC.  So it is a hardly new,
and divulging such information will have absolutely no effect of whether
or not such a type of virus will show up on Usenet or on your favourite
UNIX host.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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