Guten ABEND (bad German pun)
On 2025-09-17 01:34, Mike Beer wrote:
Good morning
According to this source it came from a German university:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Tree_EXEC
reading the code the variables are in GERMAN.
e.g. WER = who
or a modification of german words (e.g. for year, month, day).
So a german origin is highy probable.
Best regards
Mike
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René Jansen
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Hi Mike,
So the author was German-speaking?
Best regards,
René.
On 16 Sep 2025, at 17:43, Mike Beer <[email protected]> wrote:
You can find the source code here:
https://archive.ph/20130903155523/http://vxheaven.org/dl/exp/CHRISTMAS
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Auftrag von Bill Bellach
Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. September 2025 17:27
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Looking for CHRISTMA EXEC
All,
I am looking for anyone from 1987 that may have had information regarding the
CHRISTMA EXEC virus. In particular I am looking for anyone who knows/knew Jerry
Hoekstra, at that time I believe he was with Calvin University.
Thanks
Bill
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