IP: Viruses wiggle into IM chats

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> 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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