Christmas Tree Worm Computer. Christmas tree exec was the first widely disruptive computer worm which paralyzed several international computer networks in december 1987. The worm was blamed on a german student who claimed he just wanted to send greetings to his friends.
Christmas tree worms live inside corals where they hide from predators. Spirobranchus giganteus commonly known as the christmas tree worm is a tube building polychaete worm belonging to the family serpulidae anatomy and morphology. The worm was blamed on a german student who claimed he just wanted to send greetings to his friends.
Both its common and latin names refer to the two chromatically hued spiral structures the most common feature seen by divers.
Christmas tree was the first program to paralyse a network and hilight the need to educate computer users about the dangers of opening strange email attachments. Christmas tree exec was the first widely disruptive computer worm which paralyzed several international computer networks in december 1987. 1 written by a student at the clausthal university of technology in the rexx scripting language it drew a crude christmas tree as text graphics then sent itself to each entry in the target s email contacts file. Both its common and latin names refer to the two chromatically hued spiral structures the most common feature seen by divers.
