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CA Issues Warning of More Viruses
6th January 2000 (Computimes)

COMPUTER Associates has warned of more computer viruses. CA said a new Portuguese "Happy New Year" Trojan called Feliz.Trojan were desrtuctive programs that disguise themselves as benign applications.

However, Trojans, unlike viruses, do not replicate themselves. When, started the program will immediately delete certain files and then leave the user with an "ugly looking face entitled Feliz Ano Novo or Happy New Year. It is also warned of a new Word macro virus called Armagidon, which infects Word documents by spreading through traditional means such as e-mails, shared drives, and floppy disks.

CA warned computer users of a new worm named Wscript/Kak, which infects Windows 98 systems. The worm spreads through e-mail using Outlook Express 5.0 on Windows 98 systems only and it will infect Windows 98 systems running outlook Express 5.0 even if users don't open any attachments from the infected mail.


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