Re: Jerusalem Virus: Once upon a time....

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

The first time I analysed it, I misread the Friday (5th day of the week)  
as May (5th month of the year), it's different half-register, and it was a
few days before I realised that it didn't do it's thing on May 13th.

But I wouldn't call it an epidemic. There were a few outbreaks, in which a 
few computers were infected. Cascade wasn't big either - both of those 
needed executable (com or exe for Jerusalem, com for Cascade) file 
sharing, which didn't actually happen much.

The biggie was Stoned, which spread via floppy disk sharing, and floppy 
disks were the main way people shared stuff back then.

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Fergie wrote:

> I know several of you may appreciate this, and may have several
> comments on the topic(Alan :-).
>
> Via the Kaspersky blog.
>
> [snip]
>
> Back in 1987, the 13th November was a Friday. It was also the first
> trigger date for the Jerusalem virus. (You may think there are problems
> with virus naming now, but back in 1987, there were serious issues -
> Jerusalem was also called Friday the 13th 1813, Hebrew University,
> Israeli and Suriv-3.).
>
> In 1988, Jerusalem caused the first major computer virus epidemic - it
> infected enterprises, government offices and academic institutions
> around the world. Now, we've got used to virus outbreaks, and it's hard
> to imagine the world without them. My days in the antivirus world don't
> go back to the days of the Jerusalem epidemic. But along with Stoned and
> Cascade, Jerusalem was still one of the big three infectors when I
> started doing antivirus technical support back in 1990.
>
> [snip]
>
> More at:
> http://www.viruslist.com/en/weblog?weblogid=173917844
>
> - ferg
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>  fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
>  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
>
>
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