Years ago in the federal agencies, the computers were set up without floppy disk drives because floppy disks could be the source of virus infections. After an attempt was made to live in a paperless society, though, there were second thoughts about that. That was found out yesterday. He is 23 years old and, since yesterday, is considered to be the worst commercial saboteur in the computer era. With a mischievous virus disguised as a love-letter, he has rocked the entire web world.
Experts warn of an entirely new form of terrorism with incalculable consequences.
It was a data bomb with a time fuse. On April 28, the mischievous e-mail was loaded on a server of a Philippine provider, but was not activated until Thursday. The advice is to delete these as soon as you see them. No virus has ever caused as much damage as Spyder's love letter. According to initial estimates, the e-mail worm burrowed its way into hundreds of thousands of PCs in Germany alone.