IP: Love Bug Mutates Into Dangerous New Strains

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>From: "Richard Dooling" <dooling@home.com>
>To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
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>Last week's infamous "ILOVEYOU" computer worm has apparently spawned new and
>more dangerous variants of itself.  LOVEBUG's viral successors still use
>romance to entice the user to open and release their powers, but rogue
>programs like the new "Marital Discord" worm not only corrupt files and hard
>drives, they damage the human heart, as well.
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>The Marital Discord worm arrives attached to an email and executes "script"
>that opens the user's contact and address books, looks up old lovers, and
>sends them messages marked URGENT I MUST SEE YOU AND MAYBE TOUCH YOU, TOO in
>the email subject line. The text of the Marital Discord message addresses
>the former lover by name and confesses a long-suppressed and insatiable
>resurgence of lust which the user is now helpless to control. The program
>then signs the user's name, adds a P.S. "My life is a lie without you!" and
>sends blind carbon copies to the user's spouse, former spouses, former
>lover's spouses, former lover's former spouses, in-laws and former in-laws
>on both sides, creditors, marriage counselors, opposing counsel, and any
>prosecutors in the area running for office on morality platforms.
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>Dave, no copyright problems.  I'm the author.
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>Richard Dooling
>http://www.dooling.com