Word: coded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the system managers, did arrive, they found that the virus program was written in a secret code so that they were not able to understand it. The process of decoding the program took hours of valuable time...
Army: Steve Brink, F; Sean Code, G; Mike Kelsey, F; Kevin Darby, F; Ross Erzar, F; Brandon Hayes, G; Matt Machon, D; Bob MacLeod...
Stoll, however, noted that Morris injected the virus late at night, when computeroperators would be least alert. Furthermore,Morris encrypted the virus in a secret code whichstumped initial efforts to read the program. Also,Stoll said Morris never passed along the simplecode built into the virus which would have haltedits spread...
After spending more than 36 hours interpreting the computer code of the now infamous "Cornell virus," one of the nation's leading computer security experts is not convinced that the virus was the innocent experiment of a bored graduate student that it was originally thought...
...addition, Stoll points out that the viruscontained fake code that sent programmers tryingto understand the virus on wild goose chases...