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Article #22813Re: Has anyone received the new "I LOVE YOU" Virus email yet ?
From: Tim Gowen
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 00:00
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 00:00
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I've just seen the 6 O'Clock news, and a man at the Manilla-based ISP
claims that he'd stopped a second, more harmful virus, which "could have
enabled others to gain access to people's computers, steal credit card
numbers and state secrets."
Sounds a bit too much to be true. Gaining access to computers, yes, but
the rest seemed a bit alarmist.
And if he stopped that one - which was imbedded in the first - how come
he couldn't stop the first. I think the problem here is that the
journalists don't know what they're saying, and tend to not go into
enough detail.
Tim
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