CS100: Questions about the Internet Worm

1. Who wrote it?

2. Who was his father?

3. What was the intention of the worm?

4. When was the worm released?

5. How long did the worm survive on the Internet?

6. Who (that's a plural "who", by the way) defeated the worm?

7. How bad were the effects of the worm on the Internet at large?

8. What kinds of attacks did the worm use? That is, how did it work?

9. The worm was buggy. What effect did the bugs have on the behavior of the worm?

10. What did the worm-killers do to defeat the worm?

11. Of what crime(s) was the author of the worm convicted? What was his sentence?