Word: appends
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...community there are those who take advantage of tears in the fabric for their own benefit or self-expression and those who try to protect themselves against such opportunists. E-mail, despite what we may think about it, demonstrates both sides of this: On the one hand, viruses can append themselves to outgoing e-mails to infect other computers; on the other, it can be imperceptibly scanned after it leaves the author's computer. This assumption of trust is the virus programmer's window of opportunity to do any number of nasty things...