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Next viruses will be silent killers
From: William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 23:42:40 -0500
http://www.msnbc.com/news/406448.asp?cp1=1 LONDON, May 11 Mere childs play. Thats the hacker verdict on the Love Letter worm and the more than 20 new permutations of it that are continuing to strike computers around the world. A report this week from a group of developers dismissed the Love virus attack as crude and demonstrated with code examples and a working model how it is possible to create a far more sophisticated virus that would work across platforms, do its work with stealth and disappear before it could be stopped. [...] *-------------------------------------------------* "Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC --------------------------------------------------- C4I Secure Solutions http://www.c4i.org *-------------------------------------------------* ISN is sponsored by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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