*** Lo, on 04/12/97, thus was seen:
KW> RV> I dunno who's right.  My book (used in school) or you(?)
KW>
KW>a number of points... nothing in the above suggests that the programs
*** And seeing this, thus spoke I:
Interesting story -- really illustrates the dark malignancy of hackers
(thank you, SS) -- but it doesn't really ring true. Try reading... Darn
it, what is it... It's a book on AI, that covers almost everything. I
think Stephen Levy, the guy who wrote 'Hackers', wrote it. It gives what
I'm willing to consider the story of the first true 'virus'.
It -was- an AI researcher who wrote it -- he postulated all the
rationale you're by now accustomed to; it reproduces, feeds, competes,
etc. So, he wrote a very small virus to infect a program and glitch the
system to give him root access as soon as it got enough access. Yes, it
was also a Trojan -- still, it could replicate. It worked as expected;
when he got root access, he suicided the virus and tried again. Worked
five times, never caught. Showed this to a friend; they supressed it --
but only for a little while.
I can't even remember the guy's name. \:
Asher Densmore-Lynn 
... The COBOL Crisis:  "But it worked in test".
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