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Caller ID traced 'ILOVEYOU' (AP)

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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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