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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Thor on September 10, 2010, 10:04:35 AM

Title: New Email Virus Alert!! (NOT a joke)
Post by: Thor on September 10, 2010, 10:04:35 AM
(http://a.abcnews.com/images/Technology/nm_email_100909_mn.jpg)

Here you have... a royal pain in the neck.

A global e-mail virus spammed inboxes this afternoon, slowing -- and in some cases halting -- work at offices around the world as employees watched their inboxes inexplicably fill with e-mails under the subject line "Here you have." Some workers were forced to go without e-mail altogether, as the flood of spam put their services out of commission.

Organizations including NASA, Comcast, AIG, Disney, Proctor & Gamble, Florida Department of Transportation and Wells Fargo are just a few of the organizations apparently affected by the worm, which appears to have sent out hundreds of thousands, if not millions of e-mails.

More at the link:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/virus-mail-spreads-online/story?id=11596433
Title: Re: New Email Virus Alert!! (NOT a joke)
Post by: BlueStateSaint on September 10, 2010, 10:40:11 AM
I saw this, and I emailed a bunch of people about it.  Seeing that I rarely, if ever, pass these things on; that I mentioned that it came from the Drudge Report; and that the Net addy has "abcnews" in the title; I think that it'll be received with more than the usual grain of salt.