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01/27/2004: "Smart Worm Wiggles Fast"

Wily E-Mail Worm Spreading Fast
NEW YORK , Jan. 27, 2004

(CBS/AP) The continued spread Tuesday of a cleverly engineered computer virus exposes a key flaw in the global embrace of technology: Its users are human.

Posing as a legitimate computer error message, the worm successfully tricked e-mail recipients into spreading it to friends, co-workers and business associates.

Read the rest of the story at CBS.com