![]() ![]() ![]() ( MCAF: Research, Estimates), makers of the best-selling VirusScan security software, said that 60 to 80 percent of its Fortune 100 clients were infected by the virus. In addition, the virus could result in some security breaches weeks or months from now because it can steal network passwords from a computer and send them to a remote location, security experts said. ![]() The "Love Bug" bit the computer world hard on Thursday in the latest sign of how vulnerable the global infrastructure is to easy-to-launch and hard-to-detect hacker attacks. The virus did cause damage, however, at companies that make heavy use of multimedia files, such as magazines and advertising agencies, because it overwrites picture files with "jpg" extensions and MP3 music files. NEW YORK (CNNfn) - The newly discovered "I Love You" virus that swept through banks, securities firms, and Web companies in the United States Thursday and later spawned copycat viruses has proved in large part to be more of an annoyance than a costly disruption of business. Quickly spreading virus disables multimedia files, spawns copycatsīy Staff Writers David Kleinbard and Richard Richtmyer ![]()
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