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Re: Denning Key Registration Virus

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From: Vesselin Bontchev
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:22
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Grant@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL (Lynn R Grant) writes:

> This is sort of like the IBM XMAS virus, but it doesn't take any code.
> All you have to do is post a highly controversial item on a well-read
> forum, and wait for the responses to bring the network to its knees.

:-). Yeah, but it must also be a non-moderated newsgroup, like
sci.crypt, or sci.math, otherwise the moderator might spoil you the
pleasure... :-))

Regards,
Vesselin

P.S. Since I am wasting the bandwidth anyway... If shu@rascal.uucp
reads this - I am receiving your messages, but am unable to reply -
the mail bounces. Please supply a better reply path, possibly
involving one of the gateways to uucp in South Africa.
- -- 
Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev          Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226      Fachbereich Informatik - AGN
< PGP 2.0 public key available on request. > Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, rm. 107 C
e-mail: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de    D-2000 Hamburg 54, Germany
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