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Article: Experts eye computer virus prevention. (Risk Management Review)
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- National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
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- April 30, 1990
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Experts Eye Computer Virus Prevention
On Christmas Eve, a large computer firm's worldwide network of personal computers is ground to a halt by messages of "Merry Christmas" repeatedly filling the screens of all machines in the system, interrupting communications and losing business.
On Friday the 13th, the computer system in a large, multi-branch regional bank shuts down. When it's reactivated the next day, the payroll records of two departments are missing.
The systems of a number of universities mysteriously slow down and then stop. Their storage devices and operating systems have been overloaded by a computer virus which has duplicated itself ...