The purpose, according to him, was to essentially steal credentials to access the internet for free—at the time, an essential part of using a dial-up internet.
And, oh, if someone claims that Michael Buen co-authored the worm with De Guzman, then-fellow classmate at AMA Computer College, the latter explicitly denied the saying.
Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Post Comment. This is just a scrunched down wiki page with a clickbait title. Follow us facebook twitter instagram youtube. Search Search for: Search. Photo credit: BBC. The code that was also inserted into Wikipedia Sandbox, the page used for checking wikicode, did not cause faults on other pages.
An administrator of Wikipedia who noted this started to block the users and reversing the modifications they made to the various pages they hijacked. The Wikipedia administrator, Scientizzle, who discovered the code and tried to remove the edits, said that he went ahead to delete the editors' contributions expecting to prevent subsequent attacks, acts of imitations, and any number of editors crashing into viral filters whilst browsing a 'page history'.
Huliq published this in news on January 19, Everything was going fine until a serious problem started to show up. The deletion process of the modifications on the Wikipedia page, Sandbox that contains a huge revision history, caused the media servers hosting just Wikipedia to be overloaded for 30 minutes. That, in turn, prevented innumerable users from editing and posting their content onto the encyclopedia, as the site was down for those thirty minutes.
Wikipedia developers quickly reacted by finding a solution to this massive deletion process should a similar event occur again.
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