Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
Since the virus spread 10 times faster thanMorris had intended, the experts said, computersbegan to slow down and lose memory becausemultiple copies of the program were trying tobreak into the same computer at the same time...
...hours of Thursday morning, Morris telephoned Andrew H. Sudduth '83-'85 and Paul Graham, a computer science graduate student, at Harvard's Aiken Computation Lab when he realized that a simple but critical error in his program had allowed a computer "virus" to spread rapidly out of control...
...play them under, play some zones, and take the short pass away," Clemens said. "They'll try to spread you out. We'll try to take care of under coverage first and force them to throw the long pass. They may think they can throw the long pass because of the problems we've been having...
Devon Davidson, who is the AIDS education project director for the National Coalition of Advocates for Students, said that detailed instruction to children about the disease which has killed more than 70,000 people in the United States is essential to combatting its spread into younger and younger segments of the population...