Worm computer virus was written by Morris, a graduate student at Cornell University in the United States. Although there was no malice, at that time, the "worm" spread wildly on the Internet, causing thousands of networked computers to stop running and causing huge losses, which became the focus of public opinion at that time. More than 6,000 computers in the United States are infected by computer viruses, which makes the Internet unable to operate normally. This typical computer virus invaded the computer network, forcing the US government to respond immediately, and the Ministry of National Defense set up a computer emergency action team. The attacks in this incident included five computer centers and 250,000 computers contracted by the government. In this computer virus incident, the direct economic loss of the computer system reached 96 million dollars.
This computer virus is the first computer virus to spread through the Internet in history. Robert Morris, its designer, took advantage of the weakness of the system to write the biggest electronic intruder who invaded the ARPANET network, so that he was allowed to participate in the graduation project of Cornell University and obtained the privilege of super user of Aiken Center of Harvard University. He was also sentenced to three years' probation, fined $6.5438+0 million, and ordered to provide 400 hours of service in the new district, becoming the first person in history to be punished by law for making computer viruses, thus turning a new page in solving the computer virus problem through legal means in the world.