Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!sunybcs!boulder!ncar!tank!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!uxf.cso.uiuc.edu!rmf1992 From: rmf1992@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: SCORES ordeal + new(?) SCORES info Message-ID: <46700076@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 17 Oct 88 05:41:00 GMT References: <6685@ut-emx.UUCP> Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:ut-emx.UUCP:6685:uxf.cso.uiuc.edu:46700076:000:569 Nf-From: uxf.cso.uiuc.edu!rmf1992 Oct 17 00:41:00 1988 There is an article in the November MacWorld that suggests that the SCORES virus was written by a disgruntled programmer, "SCORES was apperently written to target two of EDS's (Electronic Data Systems) in-house programs that bear the ERIC and VULT identifiers." And, after NASA got infected the FBI was called in to investigate. Unfortunately, the article never says that the SCORES autor was caught, prosocuted, and convcted. Probably this was because they lacked enough substantial evidence. Bob Frank - undergrad @ UofIllinois rmf1992@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu