Re: Really awful TV news report on virus (from 1988)

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon &
Hannah <rmslade () shaw ca> wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2i_6j55bS0
>
> I suspect the "virus" they were talking about was the Morris/Internet "worm," but
> you'd never really be able to confirm what it was from this mishmash of
> misinformation.
I'm not sure this is Morris - the report stated it spread by disk and
telephone (1:49). Morris abused a named or fingerd overflow, if I
recall correctly.
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