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To: familyop

“With the kind of virus called a time bomb during the ‘90s. It’s easy for crackers to write viruses that are activated at a particular later time.”

Is there any information on the damage any of these alleged 1990s time bomb virus’ caused when they were activated?


47 posted on 11/06/2014 2:12:24 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: dynoman
"Is there any information on the damage any of these alleged 1990s time bomb virus’ caused when they were activated?"

I only recall news of small damage caused to private computer systems and networks, because I had a pulse during the '90s and probably have near average long term memory. It's likely that some of the news of recent years involved time-activated viruses. An Internet search should yield some instances of time-activated viruses and damages caused by them. It seems there was news of DoS attacks done that way.


51 posted on 11/06/2014 2:24:05 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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