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  • Greeting card virus licensed to spread

    The FriendGreetings electronic greeting card has all the hallmarks of a mass-mailing computer virus.

  • Virus writers get slapper happy

    Internet vandals have continued to modify the recent Slapper worm and have sent at least four new variants of the hostile Linux program into the electronic wilds.

  • Slow action on e-vandal investigation

    Waiting for the law to catch up with Internet terrorists? Don’t expect quick action from Australia. Authorities were today unable to identify which, if any local organisations would join the hunt for the author of the 'Love Letter' e-mail virus.

  • Death of the Internet greatly exaggerated

    Security experts downplayed media reports that an "electronic jihad" aimed at Israeli Web sites will start Thursday.

  • Data on Internet threats still out cold

    Are we winning the battle against computer viruses and security threats, or getting swamped by an epidemic?

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