A second reason that there have not been more UNIX attacks is that attacks that are made are not reported. Nothing inspires success as well as success and the lack of publicity authors of UNIX attack programs have received has had a beneficial damping effect. The two reasons that there has been very little publicity is because some of the organizations that track these attacks have made a policy not to report them hoping in effect to not fan the flames and because the media circus surrounding the Internet Worm and Michelangeo attacks has left the press gun shy. [Yes, even the press doesn't want to look foolish by being alarmist, although the nightly television news may convince you otherwise.] In addition, there is no reason to publicize anything but the most spectacular events such as the Internet Worm. Since then, there was a major European university infected with a UNIX script virus in 1992, rumors of a virus infection at a major American oil company in 1993, an international computer network using PC UNIX systems died in 1995 from the Michelangeo virus with a repeat performance in 1996. There were also many infections not worthy of special note and examples of the Typhoid Mary Syndrome that occurred in actual real world operation. None of this was reported to the general public, which while having a desirable and beneficial effect, also left many system administrators in the dark about the risks they may be facing.