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IP: Viruses wiggle into IM chats
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:03:21 -0400
1. Viruses wiggle into IM chats Corey Bates was chatting on his MSN Messenger recently when his high school buddy Trey sent him a winking-face icon. Then Trey sent him another icon. Then another. Bates, an 18-year-old who will start his freshman year at Oklahoma University this month, knew it was uncharacteristic of Trey to flood him with winking faces--a popular "emoticon" used to color text-based IM conversations. His suspicions grew when the alias "george.w.bush () whitehouse gov" suddenly flashed on his screen along with an invitation to accept an attached file called "choke.exe." Unlike his friend, who obviously had been bitten by a virus, Bates knew better than to accept it. August 14, 2001, 12:45 p.m. PT http://two.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=eB580Gasa0U0dvz0Al
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