IWD_ism

Mike McNally m5 at vail.tivoli.com
Mon Jan 6 10:27:34 PST 1997


John Young wrote:
> 
>    ... injecting the attackers'  computers with "a polymorphic
>    virus that wipes out the system, takes it down for weeks."

Looks to me like somebody's trying to land a job writing X-Files
scripts.



- "Mulder, are you saying that virus was ... polymorphic?  And that's
what wiped out the system?"

- "We both know a virus like that can take a system down for weeks.
Now I'm just worried about what it'll do next."

- "I didn't think anybody had actually made a successful polymorphic
virus?"

- "They haven't.  Until now."


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