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From: c60c-3aw@web-3d.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: virus (was Re: welcome back)
Summary: hmm.
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Date: 14 Nov 88 21:15:06 GMT
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In article <8877@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <8811091615.aa24516@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> abc@BRL.MIL (Brint Cooper) writes:
>>All the media insist that 60,000 (!) computers were affected (6,000
>>sounds more plausibe really...  but then.
>
>There are 6000 hosts in the NIC host table alone.  If you take into
>account the domain system and gateways there could easily be 60000
>accessible hosts.  Although probably most of them missed catching
>the virus, they were all potentially affected by the loss of service
>when the whole Internet was effectively shut down.

The virus should only have been able to do serious damage to VAX or Suns; those
were the binaries that were FTPed.  The 60,000 figure seems reasonable if you
take Sun networks into account.

Now that I think about it, this is the wrong place to be discussing this...
alt.virus, anyone?

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