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Thursday, July 26, 2001
http://chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0107260203jul26.column?coll=chi%2Dtechnology%2Dhed More on SirCam: An epidemic of rudeness aids computer virus Eric Zorn The note from marketing director Terri Sparks of the Animal Welfare League was clipped and curiously pidgin: "Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice. See you later. Thanks." Some of the nearly 400 people who received this e-mail message and its attached file earlier this week responded with advice for Sparks, not all of it suitable for a family newspaper. The essence: "Don't send !*#&%@# computer viruses!" But Sparks was an unwitting Typhoid Terri, just another link in the growing chain of victims of the Sir Cam infection. She passed it along Monday by opening a file attached to an e-mail asking to have her advice....
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