It will always be out there. Worse is the very real possibility that someone with even less scruples will add a couple of lines of destructive code and create a much more damaging variant. When the attachment is clicked, the worm sends itself via e-mail to all people in a user's MS Outlook address book. It has no payload, but will attempt to connect to a Web site in the Netherlands on Jan. 26 each year. However, Tuesday saw only a minor incidence of infection.
People run it and get caught all over again.
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