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From: karn@jupiter..bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The virus
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Date: 6 Nov 88 21:07:34 GMT
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Now that we have a pretty good idea who wrote the virus and what his
intentions were, I would like to suggest something he might do that would go
a long way toward mitigating the damage he has done.

It sure would be nice if Morris (or someone at Cornell with access to his
files) were to release the complete, original source for the object portion
of the virus.  There are a *lot* of uneasy people out here who are not
completely sure that it is now completely understood, and releasing the
source ASAP would go a long way toward quelling those fears.

I'm probably not the only one who has been "invited" to an internal meeting
in my organization to answer questions about the virus and the steps taken
to protect against it. The more we administrators know about the virus when
we go into those meetings, the easier our lives will be over the next few
days and weeks.

Phil Karn