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From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Internet UNIX virus
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Date: 9 Nov 88 19:07:22 GMT
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In article <13251@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
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>
>And by the way, do you have any idea
>on how long it took to infect almost ALL Suns and VAXens networked to the
>Internet around the world? It was just a matter of hours.

So what?  If there was a comparable network of Amigas, would an infection
have spread any slower?  Except for differences in disk and CPU speed, I
think not.

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>