Malware Wiki       658pages on     this wiki     Date Discovered
1974     Place of Origin     Source Language     Platform OS 360
File Type(s)     Reported Costs      Rabbit was a program that
appeared in 1974. It is likely the third self-replicating
program, after Creeper and Reaper.       When Wabbit is
executed, it copies itself and sends it twice through the ASP
input jobstream. Overtime, so many copies of Rabbit would be
running that it would clog the system, making it run slow and
making it more difficult to remove the program.       The
computers where the Rabbit program was run were slowed down and
clogged to the point of being nearly unusable. Cleaning the
systems was a long, complicated process. The creator of Rabbit
was discharged.      Other FactsEdit      Little information is
available on this program. The one first-person account of this
program comes from Bill Kennedy, who seems to confirm that a
Rabbit program was conciously coded. All other accounts of the
program read like urban legends