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Francois Pinard pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
Wed Sep 3 19:56:22 EDT 2003


[Skip Montanaro]

> They said it was going to be bad after everyone returned from the long
> holiday and late-summer vacations.  I guess they were right...

On the other hand, I've read somewhere (on the Symantec site, I think), that
at least some varieties of the virus will turn themselves off on September
9'th.  I do not understand why the bad guys would have programmed such a
deadline within their code, but I still wish this deadline story is true!

-- 
François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard





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