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To: Henry Niman who wrote (5853)1/7/1999 11:54:00 AM
From: Oliver & Co  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6136
 
READ!!!!!!!! STAT!!!!!!!

Picture.exe really a Trojan horse

E-mail attachment, if opened, tries to send private information to an e-mail address originating in China

By Bob Sullivan
MSNBC

Jan. 6 — Here's a computer virus story that's not an urban legend. If you receive an attachment in e-mail called “picture.exe,” don't open it. If you do, what happens next reads a bit like a spy novel — this Trojan horse drops two more programs called note.exe and manager.exe which will search through your internet cache directory and, if you have one, the directory that holds your America Online username and password. It then encrypts that information, tries to establish an Internet connection, and sends it all to an e-mail address in China.

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