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Re: Blackworm: those who forget the past...
From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 02:33:27 +0000 (GMT)
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, TheGesus wrote:
On 1/28/06, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah <rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:Michelangelo Fiasco: a Historical TimelineWe were, in 1992, a) completely media unsavvy, and b) a victim of our own success. There were many examples of huge numbers of Michelangelo infections being caught and disinfected in the weeks leading up to March 6. We should have been prepared, on the day, with the stories of how many computers we saved.At the time, I was surrounded by Macs at work, and at home I ran a BBS. I ran that board for ten years, scanned every file that ever came in, and never found a single virus.
That's because in those days, boot sector viruses were the majority of the problem - people just didn't carry executable files from one computer to another very much, but we swapped data floppies all the time. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Blackworm: those who forget the past... TheGesus (Jan 28)
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- Re: Blackworm: those who forget the past... Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Jan 28)
- Re: Blackworm: those who forget the past... Drsolly (Jan 29)
- Re: Blackworm: those who forget the past... Drsolly (Jan 28)
- Re: Blackworm: those who forget the past... Gadi Evron (Jan 28)
- Re: Blackworm: those who forget the past... TheGesus (Jan 29)
- Re: Blackworm: those who forget the past... TheGesus (Jan 28)
- Re: Blackworm: those who forget the past... Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Jan 28)