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cnet.com: New Virus Disguised as PayPal E-mail

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Mon, 11/17/2003 - 2:00am

The virus e-mail looks like a PayPal security advisory. It announces that something's wrong with our account, and then tries to get you to install a program on your machine AND submit your credit card information to "verify" your accounts ok with PayPal. Very nasty. Read the full story.

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