Hal Merritt wrote:
I have been curious about this so called "Christmas Tree Virus" for many
years. I hear it mentioned, but have never been able to verify it as a
real event or urban legend.
<snip>
CHRISTMA EXEC was real. IIRC (perhaps not, it's been a Long
Time), it read your NAMES file and sent an e-mail to everyone in
it, if you ran it. The internal network in the Mid-Hudson Valley
was shut down for a couple of hours while the VM teams cleaned
things up. (We were warned about it before I opened my mail that
day. I read it out of curiousity at the time, but did not save a
copy.)
--
John Eells
z/OS Technical Marketing
IBM Poughkeepsie
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