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Article: I love you...not.(control of computer viruses)
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- Popular Science
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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Intelligent, insidious, and increasingly personal, computer viruses have become the ultimate con artists.
WOULD YOU OPEN AN E-MAIL from a friend requesting a lunch date, a colleague offering a hot stock tip, or a company sending you an invoice for a gift? If so, you're a prime target for a computer virus. Computer viruses now rely as much on human foibles--greed, fear, curiosity, loneliness--to draw you in as they do any kind of technical trickery. The infamous Love Bug virus of a few months ago arguably marked that turning point in the short history of computer security.
The Love Bug was deemed by the International Computer Security Association to be the ...