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Monday, May 27, 2002
http://www.techreview.com/offthewire/3001_2452002_2.asp World Cup Viruses Poised To Strike Chris Lee VNUNet.com, Melbourne The World Cup could provide virus authors with a great excuse to get creative, and IT managers must encourage staff to be extra vigilant, experts have warned. Antivirus company Sophos insisted that companies should be careful of seemingly harmless World Cup screensavers, spreadsheets and electronic wall charts.... World Cup viruses are not without precedent, Cluley warned. "In 1998, in the run-up to the competition in France, the WM97/ZMK-J virus asked infected victims to gamble on who the winner might be," he said. "If the user did not choose the right team, they triggered a warhead which was capable of wiping all the data off the hard drive."...
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