4 Jun
2004
4 Jun
'04
6:11 a.m.
Go read e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm for an intro
to the worm and http://protovision.textfiles.com/100/tr823.txt for
Eugene Spaffords tech report on the little beast.
Facts are wonderful. ;)
88 is a better year and both VAXen and SUNs were affected, not to
mention a great lot of bewildered sysadmins.
/UFO
----- Earlier messages, mutilated and all -----
Philip Pemberton wrote:
> Sure, but C64s, VAXen and such never had any
viruses written
> specifically for them, IIRC. [...]
Then Vassilis Prevelakis answered (touch?)
VAXen? How about the Morris worm that flooded the
Internet back in 86?
It had a specific buffer overflow (for fingerd) that injected vax
machine code onto the stack.