Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Damage done by the "Cornell virus," a havoc-wreaking computer program written by 1988 Harvard graduate Robert T. Morris Jr., has prompted new interest in the possibility of a program in ethics in technology, computer science professors said last week...
When the system managers, did arrive, they found that the virus program was written in a secret code so that they were not able to understand it. The process of decoding the program took hours of valuable time...
After they had finally decoded the virus and began trying to interpret the program, it became apparent that Morris had included fake instruction sequences--portions of the program which would never be executed--to lead them on wild goose chases in their attempts to understand the operation of the program...
Beginning last Thursday afternoon, system managers turned off each machine, and reprogrammed them by hand to eradicate the virus. By Friday, most of the machines at Harvard and around the country had been put back on line. THE INCUBATION OF A VIRUS...
EARLY THURSDAY MORNING 12:00 A.M. VIRUS RELEASED BY ROBERT MORRIS, JR. 2.00 A.M. MORRIS CALLS HARVARD TO WARN OF INFECTION LATE THRUSDAY MORNING PROGRAMMERS BEGIN DEBUGGING SYSTEMS AFFECTED BY VIRUS LATE FRIDAY MOST UNITS WORKING AGAIN, MORRIS NAMED AS VIRUS ORIGINATOR