A complaint issued Monday charges Mitnick with using a computer in suburban Calabasas to gain access to Leeds University computer data in England. He also allegedly altered long-distance phone costs incurred by that activity in order to cover his mischief. Mitnick allegedly stored the stolen data in a University of Southern California computer. A computer operator at Voluntary Plan Assistance in Calabasas, which handles disability claims for private firms, told investigators he allowed his friend unauthorized access to the firm's computer. From that terminal, Mitnick gained access to Digital facilities in the United States and abroad, the affidavit said.
Viruses are very rare indeed.
I'm getting about 1 or 2 reports a week which turn out to be genuine viruses. The biggest virus problem is misinformation, according to Solomon, who told the audience that 'everything you've read and everything you know about viruses is wrong'. He goes on to state an example, 'People are calling everything a virus. My printer won't print a pound sign. Thus he dangerously misleads the reader into worrying about blank mainframe disks or, worse, into not worrying about executable disks on other machines.