Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This strange behavior alerted system operatorsto the presence of the virus; many of them,including Stoll, had already begun trying todefeat the virus by 2 a.m. Thursday morning...
...system operators first disconnected theirinfected machines from the Internet and tried tolocate the virus to destroy it. However, afterthey had successfully cured one of their machines,the virus would reinfect it from other computerswithin the same institution, using differenttechniques...
Because the virus was intentionally released solate at night, Stoll isn't sure that the virus wasreally meant as a harmless prank...
...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...