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Email Virus Attack Muslim Group!

Neowin · Nov 15, 2001 10:36 EST with -1 comments

Ripped from wired

Last Friday, on the Muslim Sabbath and on the cusp of the holy month of Ramadan, the council's e-mail list was infected with the malicious "Snow White" virus.

The council, in a press release, described the infection as a "criminal invasion" by "hackers" in "a deliberate attempt to discredit and to disable e-mail communications to our members."

Virus experts, on the other hand, are pretty sure the whole thing's a big mistake.

Snow White, known to virus fighters as "W32/Hybris.gen@MM," has been infuriating the online world since October 2000. At its peak in January 2001, hybrid strains accounted for more than 20 percent of the complaints reported to anti-virus company Sophos.

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