Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!iuvax!bobmon
From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: The Name of the Beast (was Re: HIV was a blessing in disguise)
Keywords: Morris, virus, internet, AIDS, worm, taxonomy
Message-ID: <14903@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 88 19:40:51 GMT
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kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes:
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>HIV is the name of the AIDS virus.  To be cute and name the internet
>worm after HIV is in very bad taste.

You want a name?

	"Planarian"

Why?  A planarian is a flatworm, as opposed to a segmented worm.
Flatworms often infect people and give them nasty deseases.  Segmented
worms are best known for cartoons about fishing, and being squished all
over the sidewalk on rainy spring days.

The Morris worm ran on two machines with "flat" memory spaces, VAXen and
Suns.  It didn't touch the most common segmented architectures, the
80x86 monsters.

(And it really had nothing to do with viruses, either biological or
computative.)
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