Re: [Fwd: Fw: Virus ! ! ! ! !]

["Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy@lan2wan.com>]

Poster: "Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy@lan2wan.com>

On Sat, 30 May 1998, Kevin of Thornbury wrote:

> Actually, the 9-0-# warning is true.  You can read about it at
> http://www.att.com.  Search for "9-0-#".  However, that tactic only
> affects businesses with PBX systems.  And as much as that warning's been
> going around, the danger has not increased with notoriety.

To date, if memory serves me correctly, the only virus-like program that
was spread around the Internet was Bob Morris's Great Worm, which was a
'benign' worm which propagated all around the Net in 1988.  But it wasn't
spread via email, but through direct network connections.

Brett W. McCoy           
                                        http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy/
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