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Re: Internet Worm

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From: Suresh .S
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 11:03
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Raymond Shwake (shwake@nearside.UUCP) wrote:
: sfleming@cs.hw.ac.uk (Stewart T Fleming) writes:
: 
: >Does anyone have a reference to any study or analysis of
: >the infamous Internet worm of a couple of years back that
: >spread through the mail system ?
: 
: 	*The* definitive study is probably "The Computer Worm: A Report to
: 	the Provost of Cornell University on an Investigation Conducted by
: 	The Commission of Preliminary Enquiry".
: 
: 	Rik Farrow's _UNIX_System_Security_ text discusses the worm in
: 	Appendix G. It repeats an article which appeared in UNIX World,
: 	June 1990. 
: -- 


Aha, there are two more very good articles :-

(1) The Gene Spafford report(available in cs.purdue.edu:pub/spaff)
(2) Another report from MIT by Mark Eichin & Jon Rochlis

Both are available from ftp.cs.buffalo.edu:pub/worm/

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Suresh Sivaprakasam                    
Department of Computer Science,    SUNY Buffalo,    Amherst,   NY - 14260-0001
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