Chapter 8. Viruses, Worms, and Trojan Horses
HARDLY A WEEK PASSES WITHOUT HEARING about a new virus, worm, or Trojan Horse that has infected networks of computers. These problems not only cost the company money in their aftermath, but there is a loss of productivity that can never be replaced. Although these problems primarily hit the operating system and software of one vendor, no operating system is safe. Remember, the first publicized worm was unleashed in 1988 and was designed to attack Digital VAX and Sun Systems based on a version of UNIX.
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