Good times virus thing-a-ma-bobber
Ian Farquhar
ianf at sydney.sgi.com
Tue Dec 6 23:08:02 PST 1994
On Dec 7, 1:04am, ADAM GERSTEIN, _THE_ MACGURU wrote:
> Need I remind you of a certain Robert T. Morris? Does the "Internet Worm"
mean
> anything to you? Sure, it wasn't actual email, but it did use email and other
> means of transport to cripple the net in a matter of hours.
The Internet Worm used the sendmail DEBUG mode to execute commands on
a remote system. It did not propogate itself via email messages, which was
what the original (ridiculous) warning claimed.
I can't feel a lot of sympathy for people who took this announcement
seriously. Such stupidity reaps its own rewards.
Ian.
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