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Technology Stocks : e.Digital Corporation(EDIG) - Embedded Digital Technology
EDIG 0.00010000.0%Mar 20 5:00 PM EST
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To: JAMES F. CLASPILL III who wrote ()5/4/2000 10:30:00 PM
From: MaryinRed  Read Replies (1) of 18366
 
The LOVE Virus...was also targeting music files:
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F-Secure's Hypponen said the virus was targeting computer music and graphic files in formats such as JPEG, MPEG2 and MP3.

As a result, Hyponnen said several European publishing companies had lost their digital photo archives, including a local publisher in Sweden and a multinational one, but he declined to name the companies.

He also said his company had been contacted by a radio station in Central Europe that had had its digital music archives wiped out.

''It is growing quickly...and now that the U.S. has opened up, the virus will spread like wildfire,'' he told Reuters. ''It will probably not die out at the weekend as everyone will still be upgrading their systems against viruses, so it's unlikely to be quiet until Monday.''

Hyponnen's company, previously known as Data Fellows Corp., is headquartered in San Jose, Calif.

Stock market investors seized on the attack as evidence of growing need for computer security tools and pushed up the shares of anti-virus companies -- more than 20 percent in the case of McAfee.com and Trend Micro .
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