Word: computerized
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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The Yanks didn't do any better. On Capitol Hill, crippled e-mail systems forced an atypical silence in the halls of Congress, as well as some unusual scrambling. Arriving early on a day dominated by the death of John Cardinal O'Connor, New York Congressman Joseph Crowley's press...
In New York City's financial district, the bug hit early risers especially hard. "If I had been here a few minutes later, nothing would have happened," says Vincent Cecolini, an editor for the RIA Group, a publisher of financial books. By the time his company's computer technicians arrived...
Alerted by their overseas offices, most multinationals escaped the Love Bug's full embrace. Tipped off by colleagues in England and Germany, computer-security personnel at AT&T's operations hub in New Jersey reported for duty by 6 a.m. to block the virus. Within hours, some 100 desktop machines...
The consensus among computer-security experts is that the Love Bug is the biggest virus outbreak in history--"by at least threefold," says ICSA.net's Tippett. Agrees McAfee president and CEO Gene Hodges: "It's clear at this point that this is the most damaging and the most widespread virus...
And if you happened to enter a computer chat room--looking for kindred spirits in cyberland--it passed copies of itself as well to everybody out there. (Imagine how receptive patrons of a singles chat room would be to a poisoned "love letter.") Nor would you have been protected if...