Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under the 1986 Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Morris could face fines of up to $5000 or twice the value of any financial loss caused by the virus. In addition, he could be sentenced to one year in jail...
...trial of a Harvard graduate accused of unleashing a computer "virus" which infected an estimated 6000 computers nationwide in early November, 1988 is scheduled to begin in Syracuse today...
Robert T. Morris '88 is accused of creating the virus program that crippled computers in many major universities and government research facilities across the country, causing the majority of them to shut down temporarily. Morris pleaded not guilty when he was indicted this summer...
...said he wrote the virus as an experiment, and introduced it into Arpanet, the Department of Defense's computer network...