The date on which it struck was nicknamed "Black Thursday," and had it occurred ten years later, it probably could have affected the stock market.
The date on which it struck was nicknamed "Black Thursday," and had it occurred ten years later, it probably could have affected the stock market. Fortunately, though, this particular disaster happened in 1988, well before its target had reached its present size. It worked by repeatedly spawning processes on the victimized machine, causing its performance to slow to a crawl, and consisted of a two parts: a 99-line bootstrap C program which was transmitted first to the target computer, which then pulled over the rest of the program from the original computer. For ten points, what was this non- virus which attacked the Internet on November 3, 1988?
The date on which it struck was nicknamed "Black Thursday," and had it occurred ten years later, it probably could have affected the stock market.
the Internet {WORM}