As an Internet user, are you feeling ever so slightly vulnerable?(Symantec Corp.)(Brief Article)

Public Works, July, 2000 by Norris, Donald F.

As an Internet user, are you feeling ever so slightly vulnerable? Well, you should be feeling very vulnerable! Within the past month (I am writing in late May for publication in July), two rather nasty viruses were turned loose on the Internet. These were the "ILoveYou" or "Love Bug" virus that hit the Net on May 4th and a variant of "ILoveYou" called "NewLove" or "Herbie" that descended a couple of weeks later. Although called viruses, both were technically "worms." Regardless of nomenclature, both infected large numbers of computers creating havoc worldwide.

Viruses are computer programs written to make changes in computers that receive them. Usually, the changes are anything but good and can involve loss of data and programs and can even require that entire...

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