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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Subject: new photos from my

Subject: new photos from my party! Body: Hello! Attachment: www.myparty.yahoo.com (29,696 byte PE file). If you see this, you are the lucky recipient of a new virus, W32/My Party-A, which uses an interesting feature -- the fact that com is used both for an executable DOS program and the end of a URL. The Yahoo address, above, looks like a Web site address, but actually it's the name of the program. Tip of the hat to McAfee (and its PR agency, Bite) for being first with the news. Update: Reuters now has the story here, with a non-working "link" to the Yahoo address.

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