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From: root@dsoft.UUCP (Super user)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Virus in the future?
Keywords: viruses of the past
Message-ID: <74@dsoft.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 88 00:19:39 GMT
Organization: DragonSoft, Livingston NJ
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I see a lot of discussion going on about the virus that hit the net, and all
I can think of is my past experiences and what I've seen as a result.

The Amiga's original virus came about as a harmless joke, similar to this
one.  It got a great deal of coverage in the news as a result.  A very short
time after that, at least three new viruses infected Amiga owners, and the
war's been running ever since.

Not long after that (or was it before?)  I began to see articles about a 
virus that was hitting on IBM's and made it's way into the college disk
libraries somewhere.  That got big coverage, and as a result, people are
going like mad looking for programs like 'flushot' to stop the virus. other
people wrote bogus versions of flushot which further infected the systems.

The point here, is that now we've got a virus on the nets.  It's made 
big news in the process.  People are going to see this and some brilliant
idiot is going to think "Wow, what an easy way to get public recognition!"
No matter that he's going to screw someone over royally and take down systems
all over the world. He wants the prestige, he wants the audience, he wants
to be able to say he pulled something over on the bigshots.

Watch yourselves real close from now on, and EXPECT another virus to come
through the net. it's a trendy thing these days.