[391] in bugtraq
Re: Got this - not sure of authenticity. Better safe etc...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bennett Todd)
Tue Dec 6 17:28:09 1994
From: bet@std.sbi.com (Bennett Todd)
To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 14:07:58 -0500 (EST)
Cc: Doug.Hughes@eng.auburn.edu, au-unix-managers@eng.auburn.edu,
bugtraq@fc.net, happenings@eng.auburn.edu
In-Reply-To: <9412060000.AA06988@snark.imsi.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at Dec 5, 94 07:00:40 pm
>Yup. Those email viruses are almost as dangerous as artificially
>intelligent network packets.
Well, I know nothing about this report, but I've heard of a "virus" (more
like a worm, actually) carried via email: as I recall, IBM's internal
network (VNET?) was shut down by a christmas card that retransmitted itself
to everyone in the receipient's phonebook.
AOL has all kinds of cleverness for automagically downloading new versions
of its own client software, so this virus report didn't strike me as
intrinsically unbelievable.
-Bennett
