This reminds me of someone at a Company I worked for, can't remember which, where some programmer had displayed a prompt for whatever to which an end-user replied "f*@k" - upon which the program then replied, "Your place or mine?" Needless to say, management was not amused by this and the programmer was given a "good talking to" if not then also put on "garden leave". <grin>
On 10/10/2021 15:52, PINION, RICHARD W. wrote: > The only thing I ever put on a system, similar to that, was a TSO program > which produced a crude picture of the one finger salute. You could put > whatever message you wanted on the hand. Silly me, I had the program > executing at TSO logon. Management was not amused. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of > Peter Sylvester > Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2021 9:36 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Mainframe ransomware solution > > [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments.] > > On 08/10/2021 16:43, David Spiegel wrote: >> Hi R'Shmuel; AMV"SH, >> "... What about the Christmas Card Worm? ..." >> >> That was AFAIK on a VM system, not, an MVS system. >> >> Regards, >> David >> >> > You could have "protected" the VM systems as much as you want, if a "friend" > send you an exec/script/clist and you execute it. > > the was actually created as small joke by a student at one of the EARN/BITNET > nodes who did not see that it could escape from the site. > > my old friend Helmut on the neighbour node detected "patient 0". > > It rapidely entered vnet which was shutdown (to remove all copies afaik), > earn bitnet was saved by Eric Thomas by filtering in rscs. > > You had to execute it, a global social attack/joke, not like the other real > worm in sendmail > > Peter Sylvester > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > Confidentiality notice: > This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally > privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended > recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this > message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any > dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail message is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately > notify the sender and delete this e-mail message from your computer. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > . > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
