On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:52:05AM -0500, Gregg C Levine wrote: > Hello from Gregg C Levine > All of this discussion regarding viruses and S/390 Linux and VM, > brings up another question. And here it is: When the worm written by > RTM, Bob Morris son, ravaged the Internet, about 14 years ago, did it > hit any connected VM systems that the people here are aware of? And > can remember?
IIRC, the RTM worm worked by exploiting a buffer overflow in fingerd on VAX systems and debug mode in sendmail on Sun boxes; it therefore would not have done anything to VM systems, if there were any it hit. However, I don't know if it came a-knockin' to any of those systems or not. Adam
