Virus email alert contained the virus!!

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Aron Schatz
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November 9, 2002
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This is a nice one for the crackers who did this. They hijacked a security companies email lists and sent the Braid worm to everyone. VBS sucks.

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Kaspersky Labs said the message, sent Thursday to subscribers of the company's "Virus News" e-mail dispatch, had actually been sent by hackers masquerading as the company. The hackers had managed to break in to Moscow-based Kaspersky's computer system and steal the mailing list for the newsletter, the company said.

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