On 08/10/2021 16:43, David Spiegel wrote:
Hi R'Shmuel; AMV"SH,
"... What about the Christmas Card Worm? ..."
That was AFAIK on a VM system, not, an MVS system.
Regards,
David
You could have "protected" the VM systems as much as you want, if a "friend" send you an
exec/script/clist and you execute it.
the was actually created as small joke by a student at one of the EARN/BITNET nodes who did not see
that it could escape from the site.
my old friend Helmut on the neighbour node detected "patient 0".
It rapidely entered vnet which was shutdown (to remove all copies afaik), earn bitnet was saved by
Eric Thomas by filtering in rscs.
You had to execute it, a global social attack/joke, not like the other real
worm in sendmail
Peter Sylvester
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