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Old Aug 18, 2001 | 8:55 pm
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Mizu
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Actually, this type of virus is a bit more tricky than using the melissa-style outlook address book to find new recipients. Instead it searches the cached web pages on the hard drive for e-mail addresses embedded in those pages (typically [email protected], but it may be a real address in case of a bulletin board web page)... Anyway, if I receive an attachment from someone I don't know, I wouldn't touch it without taking additional precautions.
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