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From: clb@loci.UUCP (Charles Brunow)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Possible Fines for Virus Perpetrator
Summary: Dispersion as a defense.
Keywords: Morris, virus, internet
Message-ID: <159@loci.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 88 22:44:24 GMT
References: <456@l5comp.UUCP> <12081@dscatl.UUCP> <16600@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
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Organization: Loci Products, 75083
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In article <16600@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes:
> 
> Yup, good show there.  I hope you're not smugly counting on the next rogue
> code to be so easy to notice and eliminate by some of my fellow Berkeley
> grad students?  DO SOMETHING **NOW** TO PROTECT YOURSELVES!  WAKE UP FOLKS!
> 

	Wouldn't it help to intermix computer types so that there wouldn't
	be so many like systems talking to each other?  If the worm works
	on Sun's and BSD's and is passed between them then it seems that
	putting some non-target system between them could interfer with
	it's spread.  I don't know enough about the problem to really say
	but this sounds like the same problem that can occur in agriculture
	if crops aren't rotated.


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