With Microscope and Tweezers: An Analysis of the Internet Virus of November 1988

With Microscope and Tweezers: An Analysis of the Internet Virus of November 1988 (1998)

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by Mark W. Eichin , Jon A. Rochlis

Venue:	in Proceedings of 1989 IEEE Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy
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TITLE	With Microscope and Tweezers: An Analysis of the Internet Virus of November 1988	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Mark W. Eichin	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	77 Massachusetts Avenue, E40-311; Cambridge, MA 02139	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Jon A. Rochlis	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	77 Massachusetts Avenue, E40-311; Cambridge, MA 02139	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	In early November 1988 the Internet, a collection of networks consisting of 60,000 host computers implementing the TCP/IP protocol suite, was attacked by a virus, a program which broke into computers on the network and which spread from one machine to another. This paper is a detailed analysis of the virus programitself, as well as the reactions of the besieged Internet community. We discuss the structure of the actual program, as well as the strategies the virus used to reproduce itself. We present the chronology of events as seen by our team at MIT, one of a handful of groups around the country working to take apart the virus, in an attempt to discover its secrets and to learn the network’s vulnerabilities. We describe the lessons that this incident has taught the Internet community and topics for future consideration and resolution. A detailed routine by routine description of the virus program including the contents of its built in dictionary is provided. 1	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	1998	INFERENCE
VENUE	in Proceedings of 1989 IEEE Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	25 found	ParsCit 1.0