| Dewdney, A. 1989. Of Worms, viruses, and core war, Scientific American, March, pp 110-113. |
....Trojan horse can also make copies of its evil genius. Such a program is called a virus. Because it can spread fast in a computer network or by copying disks, it can be a serious threat. There have been several examples of viruses that have infected thousands of machines [Computers Security 1988, Dewdney 1989]. Section 3.2.4 gives more details and describes countermeasures. 2.3.2 Communications Methods for dealing with communications and distributed systems security are less well developed than those for stand alone centralized systems; distributed systems are both newer and more complex. Even though ....
Dewdney, A. 1989. Of Worms, viruses, and core war, Scientific American, March, pp 110-113.
....features, including template matching. Self reproducing computer programs have been written in FORTRAN, C, LISP, PASCAL, and many other languages (Bratley and Millo 1972; Burger, Brill, and Machi 1980) Computer viruses and worms are self reproducing programs that operate within various computers (Dewdney 1985, 1987, 1989; Spafford 1991) Programs entered into the Core Wars tournaments typically have self replicating features (Dewdney 1984, 1987; Rasmussen et al. 1990, 1991) In nature, carbon based life forms exploit energy available from the environment (primarily the sun) to organize matter available from the ....
Dewdney, A. K. Of worms, viruses, and Core War. Scientific American, 260 (March) 110--113. 1989.
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