terms "worm, virus, infect" (Was: Re: KLEZ)

[GSCole]

Discussing code that is without mischievous intent, infection is
mentioned in context with Unix environments.

>From a note by George Coulouris, 12 March 1982, as found in Google
Groups:

"This requires modularity, interface checking, dynamic binding of
symbols to objects and strict typing (so that the objects passed across
interfaces can't spread infection to previously valid modules) I
understand that although Mesa is strongly typed in most areas, there are
loopholes."

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=infection+AND+network&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=r&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=20&as_maxm=8&as_maxy=1986&selm=anews.Aucbvax.6464&rnum=2

George Cole
Shippensburg University