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The virus has also spread to the Far East and South America. It has also become apparent that the virus, which destroys files, scans computers for network connections and exploits these to cause further damage. This means all files on shared drives are in danger if only one connected computer activates the virus. That helps explain what we've been seeing - that the program wasn't spreading from site to site as quickly as it was within a site. The main method of virus infection was initially a seemingly friendly e-mail that tricked the recipient into opening an infected file and starting the virus program.