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Anne & Lynn Wheeler

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Nov 11, 2009, 3:02:03 PM11/11/09
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from yesterday ...

The computer virus turns 26 today
http://www.techspot.com/news/36893-the-computer-virus-turns-26-today.html

except the x-mas thing was on bitnet almost exactly a year
earlier. misc. past refs:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#20 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#60 Greatest Software?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#76 Rotary phones
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#27 Re-hosting IMB-MAIN
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#26 CA ESD files Options
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#29 What if the computers went back to the '70s too?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#18 Top 10 Cybersecurity Threats for 2009, will they cause creation of highly-secure Corporate-wide Intranets?

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40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970

Rich Alderson

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Nov 12, 2009, 4:04:24 PM11/12/09
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Anne & Lynn Wheeler <ly...@garlic.com> writes:

> from yesterday ...

> The computer virus turns 26 today
> http://www.techspot.com/news/36893-the-computer-virus-turns-26-today.html

> except the x-mas thing was on bitnet almost exactly a year
> earlier. misc. past refs:

And personal computer viruses were passed from system to system in the boot
blocks of shared diskettes for years before that.

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Rich Alderson "You get what anybody gets. You get a lifetime."
ne...@alderson.users.panix.com --Death, of the Endless

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