Re: Blackworm: those who forget the past...

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, TheGesus wrote:

> On 1/28/06, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
> <rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:
> > > Michelangelo Fiasco: a Historical Timeline
> >
> > We were, in 1992, a) completely media unsavvy, and b) a victim of our own
> > success.  There were many examples of huge numbers of Michelangelo infections
> > being caught and disinfected in the weeks leading up to March 6.  We should have
> > been prepared, on the day, with the stories of how many computers we saved.
>
> At the time, I was surrounded by Macs at work, and at home I ran a
> BBS.  I ran that board for ten years, scanned every file that ever
> came in, and never found a single virus.

That's because in those days, boot sector viruses were the majority of the 
problem - people just didn't carry executable files from one computer to 
another very much, but we swapped data floppies all the time.


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