European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 f / the stars and stripes monday May 16,1988 Israel thwarts lethal virus spread among computers Jerusalem a a deadly computer Sims called Black Friday was timed to destroy thou Sands of computer file in israeli businesses and Homes on Friday the 13th, but experts said most users were alerted in time. No Early reports of damage sur faced. Virus is computer jargon for a fragment of computer program or software that can ropy itself into other programs and usually is destructive an unidentified Saboteur plan Ted the Black Friday Sims and it spread to thousands of personal computers this year As users copied or used each others software infected computers were hit in two ways. The virus mowed Down the computer and also Specif cd that programs activated on Friday May 13, would be wiped out. Data stored in the computers would not be affected. It s a Lime bomb that penetrates your computer without your being Able to know about it said Shay Bushi icky. A Tel Aviv based computer consultant. No figures were available on the cite no of the contamination among Israel s 90,000 personal computer users but bushing Ltd estimated that the infection Rale reached 100 percent among heavy users. Hebrew University researchers selected the Blade Friday virus on dec 24 because of a flaw in its design Aid Yisrael Radai a senior Programmer at the University. Instead of infecting each pro Gram once the virus attached itself to the program every time it was used consuming increasing amounts of memory space computer experts noticed that supposedly Static programs were growing in size. After an intensive search they isolated the virus. European weather a i us. I u � Mattw. I u u of i skcprr13glrt8 t 2wond name sorrel 45 cinch so 3 urge Cuk mater ii 4 lava 4t mafia i Souter 48 one Type 5 a kidded of trip j highly49hw1 i 6 find the Praise sum -n�4 7valfcyon 20 us a Wop Waltl unit 12 armadillo 13 italian m1i who 19 athletic prize 21 vat in appear Ance 24slnr
