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From: ctuel@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Cliff Tuel)
Newsgroups: ca.news,comp.misc
Subject: AP Press Release: UUCP Virus
Keywords: virus, ap, uucp
Message-ID: <5355@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 4 Nov 88 10:04:33 GMT
Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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Here is the latest news from the Associated Press
(Nov. 4, 1:30 am Pacific -- kudos to jmartin@polyslo.uucp)

By Jack Messmer

Several major universities were shocked to find computer systems
infected by a computer "virus," a renegade program potentially
capable of destroying data. The extent of the problem isn't known
yet, but the virus has been found in systems used by at least six
major universities -- M-I-T and Boston College on the East Coast, The
University of California at Berkeley on the West Coast, and Illinois, 
Purdue and Wisconsin in the Midwest. Charley Kline, the senior
research programmer at the University of Illinois, says the virus
came in through a nationwide network.