Word: target
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Braving a cold rain, some 200 students at Yale University's School of Organization and Management abandoned their studies last week for an old- fashioned protest rally. The target of their angry slogans: a campaign by Yale president Benno Schmidt to push the innovative but troubled business school into the mainstream of M.B.A. academies. Said Jane Melvin, a first-year student: "This amounts to a hostile takeover of the school...
...infected host computer first sent a short message through "electronic mail" over the Internet to the target computer. By using a number of tricks, Morris' program made the target machine treat the message as a command program instead of ordinary mail, which the computer places into a file to be read by users if they wish. The message--now acting like a program--told each computer which received it to ask the host computer for the rest of the virus, according to Mckay Professor of Computer Science Mark Friedell...
...second stage of the virus then reserved a section of memory in the target computer as its workspace and began guessing passwords for user accounts on the target system...
When the virus found a working password, it logged itself into the machine masquerading as that user, placed a copy of the entire virus in the computer's storage and ran it, fully infecting the target machine...
When the machine had been completely infected, the virus entered its third stage, taking on the task of spreading itself to other machines. The target became a new host, and began sending its own headers to other machines on the network...