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Word: tospread (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Morris' error, according to experts contactedyesterday, was that he instructed the virus tospread to every 10th, rather than every 100th,adjacent computer on the Internet. The result ofthis forgotten zero was that the number of copiesof the virus increased exponentially at astaggering rate, bogging down computers with itssheer size...

Author: By Gregory R. Galperin, | Title: Computer Expert: Virus Not Just a Simple Prank | 11/8/1988 | See Source »

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