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Because the virus was intentionally released solate at night, Stoll isn't sure that the virus wasreally meant as a harmless prank...
...Viruses using one [infection] technique can behard to handle," said Stoll, "but viruses that usethree, four or five are extremely difficult.Besides, it was 4 in the morning...
...addition, Stoll points out that the viruscontained fake code that sent programmers tryingto understand the virus on wild goose chases...
...Finally, Stoll said experts have discoveredthat the virus could have been halted simply bytyping "pleasequit" at the right time on infectedmachines...
...When he saw how much damage his virus wasdoing, why didn't [Morris] tell everyone about'pleasequit' to stop it?" Stoll said. "There aresome things that still bother me about this...