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Saturday, October 13, 2001
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,47476,00.html SirCam Ready to Drop Payload By Michelle Delio According to analysis of SirCam's code, every year on Oct. 16 the worm will delete all the files and folders contained on the hard drives of randomly selected SirCam-infected computers. Those who have clicked on a file attached to an e-mail that reads, in part, "I send you this file in order to have your advice," have a few days to make sure the worm is not lurking in their computers. After that, they may become unwitting participants in the worm's nasty little game of chance next Tuesday, when SirCam will begin deliberately selecting victims for mass file deletion from among all infected computers' whose "Date/Time" system settings use the "Day/Month/Year" format. It will not activate on computers that use the "Month/Day/Year" format....
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