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> From: BBracey@aol.com [mailto:BBracey@aol.com] 
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 1:45 AM
> To: duc@egroups.com
> Subject: [DUC] New Infection Is Killing Files Through E-Mail
> 
> New Infection Is Killing Files Through E-Mail
> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/06/biztech/articles/11comp.html
> By JOHN MARKOFF
> 
> SAN FRANCISCO -- Computer researchers Thursday reported a malicious 
> computer program that is spreading rapidly through the Internet by 
> E-mail and destroying documents created by widely used Microsoft 
> software programs. 
> 
> Several large corporations, including Boeing, AT&T and General Electric, 
> said their computers had been infected and moved to limit the damage, in 
> some cases by shutting down their E-mail systems. Employees of 
> Microsoft, Intel and the anti-virus software maker Symantec said they 
> had also been hit. 
> 
> The attacking program shows up as an E-mail attachment. When opened, it 
> embeds itself in the computer's software, destroying files created by 
> common applications like Word, Powerpoint and Excel and propagating 
> itself to the victim's E-mail correspondents. It is far more dangerous 
> than the Melissa computer virus.
> 


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