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THERE COULD be a bright silver lining to the I Love You or Love Bug virus.
Perhaps it could finally shock people into thinking about the way they use
e-mail, and at least try to learn how to handle the megaton power of a PC.

The Love Bug spread as an attachment to e-mails. Anti-virus software failed
to trap it because the bug was not on any lists of viruses. Internet companies
AOL and CompuServe say they cannot block delivery of a virus because that would
amount to tampering with private mail. Well, maybe they have a point. But quite…

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