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Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography. Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses — the malicious programs better known for swiping your credit card numbers. In this twist, it's your reputation that's stolen. Pedophiles can exploit virus-infected PCs to remotely store and view their stash without fear they'll get caught. Pranksters or someone trying to frame you can tap viruses to make it appear that you surf illegal Web sites. Whatever the motivation, you get child porn on...

Ok folks here's the new thread for the new season. .................................................................................Set in Washington, DC, "Day 7" opens four years after Season Six with CTU dismantled and JACK BAUER on trial. Bauer's day takes an unexpected turn when former colleague TONY ALMEIDA returns. Meanwhile, newly elected President ALLISON TAYLOR leads the country alongside White House Chief of Staff ETHAN KANIN and First Gentleman HENRY TAYLOR. A national security crisis prompts an investigation by a team of FBI agents including JANIS GOLD, RENEE WALKER, LARRY MOSS and SEAN HILLINGER. Although CTU is no longer, CHLOE O'BRIAN and BILL BUCHANAN are back for...

Keeping computer viruses at bay is more stressful than divorce, warns a survey. The research revealed how European technology bosses were coping with the growing number of hi-tech threats. Although many firms had software in place to combat viruses, spam and phishing, it found few adequately protected against all threats. The survey also revealed that many tech bosses would face dismissal if they let their firm fall victim to a serious security breach.

Fizzer Worm Wallops World Complex new virus spreading fast. The Fizzer worm, which first caught security experts' attention last Thursday, is hitting computer users across the globe early this week, spreading through email and popular file-swapping networks. Tonight on "Tech Live," get the very latest news on Fizzer, and see how to get rid of this new menace. Security firm MessageLabs says its scanners caught 18,000 email messages containing Fizzer on Monday alone. The virus spreads in many different forms; its infection rate is climbing. McAfee, Trend Micro, and Symantec each rate Fizzer a medium threat, while F-Secure says Fizzer...

----- Original Message ----- From: McAfee.com Dispatch Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 3:28 PM Subject: VIRUS ALERT - W32/Fbound.c@MM McAfee.com has seen a large and growing number of computers infected with W32/Fbound.c@MM. This MEDIUM-ON-WATCH RISK virus is a pure mass-mailing worm. It does not carry any other, damaging, payload. The virus sends itself to all users found in the Windows Address book using SMTP. It arrives in an email message containing the following information: Subject: "Important" or a Japanese subject Body: [empty] Attachment: patch.exe When run, it immediately e-mails itself to all entries in the Windows address book. It does...