IP: Love Bug Mutates Into Dangerous New Strains

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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> Last week's infamous "ILOVEYOU" computer worm has apparently spawned new and
> more dangerous variants of itself.  LOVEBUG's viral successors still use
> romance to entice the user to open and release their powers, but rogue
> programs like the new "Marital Discord" worm not only corrupt files and hard
> drives, they damage the human heart, as well.
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> The Marital Discord worm arrives attached to an email and executes "script"
> that opens the user's contact and address books, looks up old lovers, and
> sends them messages marked URGENT I MUST SEE YOU AND MAYBE TOUCH YOU, TOO in
> the email subject line. The text of the Marital Discord message addresses
> the former lover by name and confesses a long-suppressed and insatiable
> resurgence of lust which the user is now helpless to control. The program
> then signs the user's name, adds a P.S. "My life is a lie without you!" and
> sends blind carbon copies to the user's spouse, former spouses, former
> lover's spouses, former lover's former spouses, in-laws and former in-laws
> on both sides, creditors, marriage counselors, opposing counsel, and any
> prosecutors in the area running for office on morality platforms.
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> Dave, no copyright problems.  I'm the author.
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> Richard Dooling
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