Technically, a worm. It was an exec that if you executed it, it sent itself to everyone in your address list. Back in the days of bitnet. Tended to fill VM spool
Cookie and its ilk required the prankster to physically access your logged on session. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Mike Schwab > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 3:02 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Scott Ford <scott_j_f...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > ________ > > ??????? whats it XMASCARD > > > > Scott J Ford > > > http://forums.vindy.com/read.php?1,489019,page=3 > > While a Student at Illinois State University in Normal, I was told they had > some program hogging the 3270 terminals saying it was the Cookie Monster > and when someone typed in Cookie it shut down. > Guessing some sort of prank program. > > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the > archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
