5 Jun
2004
5 Jun
'04
7:24 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great William Donzelli once stated:
The Morris worm was 16 years ago, and it *did* make the national news here
in the US (I remember my Mom mentioning it), and it *only* affected about
10% of the Internet at the time.
-spc (I don't recall if the university I attended at the time was hit
with it or not ... )
I think you don't recall correctly, or
perhaps you never heard of the
Morris worm. It's been a while since I read up on it, but I'm fairly
sure one of its spreading mechanisms involved a VAX machine-language
grappling hook.
I would think the reason that the older machines do not have worms and
virus (generally) is that ciding them back then was simply not
in style. 20 years ago, if a worm was released for VMS, would it make the
news? Would anyone outside of a few thousand sysadmins really care? What
glory would there be for the hacker? Not much...