Unix virus strikes Murray Hill

doug-merritt at cup.portal.com doug-merritt at cup.portal.com
Sat May 14 05:11:16 AEST 1988


Newsflash: Virus Hits Unix at Bell Labs

Friday the 13th (today) a devastating virus hit Bell Labs at Murray Hill.
Initial reports from survivors indicate that the destruction caused
was very widespread, although limited to Sun workstations. Rumor has
it that the virus was planted by a disgruntled Sun employee in the
Sun Unix kernel. The actual amount of work lost is unknown, as is the
Murray Hill policies on frequency of disk backups.

I have no affiliation with ATT, Bell Labs, Sun, nor with biocybernetic
terrorists.
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