braunste@sal-sun12.usc.edu (Gil Braunstein) (04/17/91)
I was wondering whether there are documented cases of viruses infecting mainframes or minis (basically not PCs). So far all books about viruses that I read do not document cases of viruses they simply describe how it can be done. I'm a CS graduate student at USC and I'm taking a course in information security (unfortunately not given by the CS department), my instructor claims that there have not been any documented cases of viruses infecting mainframes that he knows of. On the other hand, another instructor claims to know about some cases but one of the few sources that he pointed out was Fred Cohen's paper. The Fred Cohen paper seems to be missing from the school's library so I was wondering if any of you have access to that paper and can send me a copy and also about any other documented cases of viruses infecting non-Pcs. Thanks in advance, Gil.