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

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>]

From:                   Steve Pirk <pirkster () gmail com>
Date sent:              Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:22:45 -0700

> I thought Morris was an email worm. It was not supposed to become a worm
> (much to the surprise of the author), but if I recall correctly, it played
> hell with your email spooler trying to replicate itself to all the other
> machines your server could communicate with.

I can't recall, off hand, if Morris had *anything* to do with email, but it was 
primarily a straight network daemon classic worm.  You may be confusing it with 
the (year) earlier "CHRISMA exec," which did stuff up mail queues.

> I believe the author was quite
> upset he messed things up like he did.

Bob Jr's statement that he intended it to be more limited seems to ring true, but it 
was definitely supposed to be a worm.

> That difference might also explain Rob's comment about the "mishmash of
> misinformation".

Oh, there is plenty of confusion in that report.  As someone noted, they mention 
aspects specific to BSIs and file infectors, as if there were only one virus.  (I think 
there is also a reference to the SCORES Mac virus in there if you know the history 
...)

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