A virus with a motive.
A new computer virus, the fastest-spreading ever, was making the rounds at the end of January 2004 among unprotected computers running on Microsoft Windows. This virus, called MyDoom by some and Novarg by others, seems to be of a different nature--conspiratorial and political. That is because its...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 370; no. 8360; p. 63 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
1/31/2004
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