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[FYI] Caller ID traced 'ILOVEYOU' (AP)
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- Subject: [FYI] Caller ID traced 'ILOVEYOU' (AP)
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@t-online.de>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 20:22:18 +0100
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http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2000/05/15/lovebug/index.html
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Caller ID traced 'ILOVEYOU' (AP)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
May 15, 2000 -- A local Internet provider said today it used caller
ID to trace the origin of the "Love Bug" e-mail virus to a Manila
phone line that had been used before for breaking into its computer
network.
The disclosure explained how investigators were quickly able to
center their investigation on the residents of an apartment in a
lower middle-class Manila neighborhood, including a young computer
student who has acknowledged he may have accidentally unleashed the
"ILOVEYOU" virus.
[...]
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