First Worm Infection

The Robert Morris created the first Internet worm with 99 lines of code. When the Morris Worm was released, 10% of Internet systems were brought to a halt. Robert Morris was charged and received three years probation, 400 hours of community service, and a fine of US$10,000.
All the following events occurred on the evening of Nov. 2, 1988. 6:00 PM - At about this time the Worm is launched.
8:49 PM - The Worm infects a VAX 8600 at the University of Utah (cs.utah.edu).
9:09 PM - The Worm initiates the first of its attacks to infect other computers from the infected VAX.
9:21 PM - The load average on the system reaches 5. (Load average is a measure of how hard the computer system is working. At 9:30 at night, the load average of the VAX was usually 1. Any load average higher than 5 causes delays in data processing.)
9:41 PM - The load average reaches 7.
10:01 PM - The load average reaches 16.
10:06 PM - At this point there are so many worms infecting the system that no new processes can be started. No users can use the system anymore.
10:20 PM - The system administrator kills off the worms.
10:41 PM - The system is reinfected and the load average reaches 27.
10:49 PM - The system administrator shuts down the system. The system is subsequently restarted.
11:21 PM - Re infestation causes the load average to reach 37.

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