Date: 10 May 92 20:49:04 EDT
From: Gordon Meyer <72307.1502@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Subject: File 7--Two Cornell Students Indicted in Virus Case

                TWO AT CORNELL INDICTED IN VIRUS CASE

Two Cornell University students now have been indicted for felonies in
connection with the computer virus case that came to light last
February at the Ithaca, N.Y., university.

David Blumenthal and Mark Pilgrim are accused of embedding a virus in
three Apple Macintosh computer games that were sent from Cornell's
computer center to an archive at Stanford University. Authorities say
from there, the games were duplicated and wound up in computers across
the U.S., Japan and Great Britain.

Blumenthal, 20, and Pilgrim, 19, who, in convicted, face a maximum
four years in prison, were arrested in February on misdemeanor
charges, which were increased to felonies because the virus is
believed to have caused more than $1,000 in damage, said county
District Attorney George Dentes.

Reprinted from A NETWORKER'S JOURNAL  May 8, 1992

Downloaded From P-80 International Information Systems 304-744-2253