Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: virus (was Re: welcome back)
Message-ID: <8894@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 15 Nov 88 06:46:14 GMT
References: <8811091615.aa24516@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> <8877@smoke.BRL.MIL> <16984@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <16984@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> c60c-3aw@web-3d.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) writes:
>The virus should only have been able to do serious damage to VAX or Suns; those
>were the binaries that were FTPed.

The binaries weren't FTPed, and in any case hosts other than VAXes and Suns
were attacked, although only the first of the two virus stages survived.
(The first stage was essentially a downloader and initiator of the second
stage, and the second stage carried out the further propagation.)