4 Jun
2004
4 Jun
'04
5:11 a.m.
Philip Pemberton <philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
Sure, but C64s, VAXen and such never had any viruses
written specifically for
them, IIRC. [...]
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.
**vp
4 Jun
4 Jun
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.
7 Jun
7 Jun
12:07 a.m.
On 5 Jun 2004, at 03:11, Vassilis Prevelakis wrote:
Philip Pemberton <philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
Of course, this only applied to those infidels who thought VAXen could
run something other than VAX/VMS :-)
Of course, there was the infamous DECnet worm but that's another
story....
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au
Melbourne | "If soccer was meant to be played in the
Australia | air, the sky would be painted green"
Sure, but C64s, VAXen and such never had any
viruses written
specifically for
them, IIRC. [...]
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.
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