full-disclosure - Is Sapphire the world's smallest computer worm?

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Message-ID: <E18cXEr-0006Ar-00.2003-01-25-20-49-17@cmailm4.svr.pol.co.uk>
From: mail at blazde.co.uk (Roland Postle)
Subject: Is Sapphire the world's smallest computer worm?

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:22:19 -0500, Richard M. Smith wrote:

>At 376 bytes, is this new Sapphire worm the world's smallest computer
>worm?  The only competition I can think of is the Morse worm.  Anybody
>know how big it was?

I suspect the morse worm was bigger, therefor I'm prepared to offer a
flashy "World's smallest internet worm" award (solid gold statuette on
a marble stand with attached chrome plate which will be etched at a
later date) to the author of this one. If they would just like to stand
up and claim it ....

- Blazde