New worm -- 'SouthPark' in German

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2567563,00.html

By Reuters
May 11, 2000 5:38 AM PT

NEW YORK -- A new computer bug dubbed SouthPark that matches in
destructive power what its namesake TV series boasts in tastelessness
is making the e-mail rounds, a computer security company said on
Wednesday.

SouthPark is not a variant of the "Love Bug" virus that crippled
corporate and governmental electronic mail last week, said Alan Comet,
business manager for the securities solutions division of Computer
Associates International Inc. But it can wreak just as much havoc, he
said.

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