The "Paypal" variant is a worm

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Fox — 11/18/2003 10:16:25 PM (archived)

The subject came up a couple of days ago, in the miscellaneous discussion area of one of the writer's websites I frequent. Somewhat ironic, in that it's a "pay-to-play" site which accepts PayPal...

Anyway, someone there posted this link to a UK website.

Here's Symantec's page about it.

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If any of you use Earthlink... - Larry J - 11/18/2003 2:59:56 PM
- Just got a similar gag, supposedly from Paypal - Tom Brosz - 11/18/2003 6:35:40 PM
  - The "Paypal" variant is a worm - Fox - 11/18/2003 10:16:25 PM
  - I'd hardly describe what they were doing as a "gag" - Larry J - 11/18/2003 7:57:26 PM
    - In con-artist circles... - FrankC - 11/19/2003 6:21:32 PM
- SSN - SDG - 11/18/2003 3:36:21 PM
  - re: SSN - Larry J - 11/18/2003 3:47:23 PM

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