He said the computers contained a virus, which necessitated a purge.
According to an indictment (via Courthouse News Service), the two co-ed hackers developed a virus to infect the computers of fellow students and administrators.
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In March of 1999, a programmer unleashed the Melissa virus, disabling thousands of computers around the United States.
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Each time this application is run, the virus tries to move to other computers in the network.
Judge Rivlin said Gokar was probably the least destructive virus but the most disruptive, with messages sent to tens of thousands of computers in 40 countries Vallor told police he had not intended to do any harm.
Otherwise, the virus does not appear to damage the computers it infects.
Ironically a bug in the virus that makes it confuse printers with computers means that printers are likely to suddenly start churning out reams of paper, an obvious clue to office workers.
The worm that infected computers at the Marine Corps headquarters at the Pentagon early Friday was ExploreZip, an especially malicious virus that typically travels by e-mail, according to a Marine Corps spokesman.
The company says that the type of virus raising eyebrows in Washington has been the company's most frequent finding in home computers for the past several weeks.
The company said it spotted the "unknown virus" earlier this week and took desktop computers, email and web servers offline as it cleaned up.
Washington (CNN) -- Federal authorities Wednesday announced an indictment charging three men in connection with a massive international cybercrime scheme that involved creating and distributing a virus that infected more than a million computers in the U.S. and Europe.
About 30, 000 workstation computers are back online at Saudi Aramco after a virus hit the world's largest oil producer.
But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech's computers, network security specialists say.
The Foreign Secretary William Hague revealed in February that computers belonging to the government had been infected with the "Zeus" computer virus, after users opened an e-mail purporting to come from the White House and followed a link.
They will organize calculations running on more than 2 million personal computers, each of which will see if potential drugs block proteins that the smallpox virus requires to function.
The other virus -- backdoor.breut -- sends the information it pillages from infected computers to the IP address: 216.6.0.28 and does not hide this.
"We are in the process of notifying impacted users and recommending that they scan their computers and run current anti-virus tools--good advice for all internet users, " they added.
Last week, a Russian security company reported that as many as 600, 000 Macs, most of them in the United States and Canada, had been infected by Flashback, a Trojan horse virus that infiltrates computers, secretly giving someone else remote access to them.
Instead of firewalls and virus checkers, the company pitches a network that monitors individual data packets, shuts off rogue computers and isolates questionable users.
Thousands of computers running Microsoft's Windows XP operating system were unable to connect to the internet after installing an anti-virus update.
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