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John McMahon's analysis suggested there were three versions of the WANK worm.
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There were other disturbing improvements to the new version of the WANK worm.
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In this case, the WANK worm only attacked VMS computer systems.
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The WANK worm had been instructed to perform several tasks which it didn't execute.
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Why had no-one, no political or other group, claimed responsibility for the WANK worm?
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Tencati was sure he could show the WANK worm attack on NASA originated in France.
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The WANK worm had invaded the corporation's own network.
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In 1988, the year before the WANK worm attack on NASA, Australia was on an upswing.
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Ron Tencati and Todd Butler had a copy of the new WANK worm ready for McMahon.
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They wanted him to analyse the WANK worm.
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Finally, almost two weeks after the second onslaught, the WANK worm had been eradicated from SPAN.
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By McMahon's estimate, the WANK worm had incurred up to half a million dollars in costs.
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The French had satisfied themselves that it wasn't a French hacker who had created the WANK worm.
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This worm didn't just kill the decoy, it also killed any other copy of the WANK worm.
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If its creator had wanted to, he could have programmed the WANK worm to obliterate NASA's files.
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Nonetheless, the fragmented and partly dysfunctional WANK worm was causing a major crisis inside several US government agencies.