Anthrax: It's a virus even your computer can catch

Paranoia provides rich pickings for virus writers...

By Will Sturgeon, 17 October 2001 08:05

NEWS The widespread paranoia surrounding anthrax has seen the return of a computer virus that arrives in users' inboxes purporting to offer invaluable advice on the killer germ. The self-propagating worm is carried in an email which is written in Spanish, with the words 'Antrax Info' in the subject line, according to a report on Reuters. When activated the worm will email itself to every address in the users' address book. However, according to anti-virus vendor Sophos it was around long before the current anthrax-related scares and major anti-virus vendors already protect against it.

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