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From: pa1590@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (pa1590)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Internet UNIX (BSD) virus
Keywords: UNIX, BSD. Virus, worm, toad
Message-ID: <705@sdcc15.ucsd.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 88 01:18:08 GMT
References: <13232@oberon.USC.EDU> <2954@sugar.uu.net> <13280@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: pa1590@sdcc15.UUCP (Stephen Hartford)
Organization: University of California, San Diego Franchise
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In article <13280@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>In article <29
(Marco and Peter are conversing...)

>>The typical PC or Amiga virus is a couple of hundred bytes long... and it's
>>got complete access to the whole system... on any PC. This virus had a couple
>>of hundred lines of prelude code, and was only able to infect a small fraction
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>>of the machines available to them... 
>
>Tell that to the people at Stanford, with (over 2000 machines infected) or
>to the folks at CalTech, UCLA, USC, Berkeley, MIT, Lawrence Livermore, which
>have had similar numbers of machines infected.  The latest count is that over 
>6000 UNIX BSD hosts have been infected.

Or we folks at UCSD, with at least a dozen machines infected. Of
course, with the load on the undergraduate computers, I couldn't
really tell the difference. According to the LA Times, over
70,000 machines caught it.

>People have stayed up for 2 nights all over the US to "manually" eradicate
>all the instances of the virus and many are still at work on it right at
>this moment.  Try to guess how much money was lost in man-hours (and this
>was fortunately a "sort of benign" virus).

And don't forget all the money spent to send this discussion around
the world, eh?                                                  8-) 

>You ain't seen nothing, yet. Good luck on your dreams.
>-- Marco Papa 'Doc'


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Stephen Hartford 
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