Re: virus hoaxes, etc.

Steve Dossick (sdossick@cs.columbia.edu)
Sat, 10 Jul 1999 08:05:09 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Alexa Champion wrote:

> >From Erol's Internet:
> [stuff cut...]
>
> >http://ciac.llnl.gov is a site run by the U.S. Government's Department of
> >Energy. It lists not only real viruses and worms but also hoaxes
> >pretending to be computer attack programs. Please note that the address
> >for this site is NOT on the World Wide Web, so it does not require the
> >"www" prefix, it is just http://ciac.llnl.gov

Wow. So, like, if there's no 'www' in the name, the site's not part of
the World Wide Web? Didn't know that.

This from an ISP's newsletter.

-s