In
<e84242463cbb7d4b9caf90e1fb2883985742dac...@egpcmbx01.egpcore.egp.qld.gov.au>,
on 03/28/2012
   at 04:20 PM, "Mark Douglas (CITEC)" <[email protected]>
said:

>That Xmas EXEC story was still hot news at IBM Sydney in Christmas
>1989. They warned us not to code such inadvertent viruses (pardon,
>virii) despite the best of intentions by its author.

It was a worm rather than a virus.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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