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Until then, users on the two systems cannot communicate with each other, and the messages they try to send will be put on hold, bogging down the electronic communication channels, according to Clifford Stoll, a computer security expert visiting at Harvard...
Visiting Professor of Astrophysics Clifford Stoll, a computer security expert, estimated that Morris' Program--now known as the "Cornell virus"--caused $2 million in damage, both in the time the computers were down and the manpower expended eradicating the virus...
...Stoll noted that the Cornell virus was the first true virus--a program with the ability to spread itself from computer to computer completely independently--ever released. Previous viruses depended on users taking certain steps, such as running a particular file or sending electronic mail, to allow them to spread. Morris' virus was programmed...
...Stoll commented that although Morris may not have intentionally designed the virus to be destructive, he did take deliberate measures to make sure that the virus would be difficult to defeat--and that he would not be caught...
...Some people are calling this just a harmless experiment that went wrong. I'm not so sure," said Stoll. "If it were meant to be harmless, then why did [Morris] put in all these defenses? There are still some things that bother me about this...