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Subject: Re: ChessBase booby-trapped

Author: Anthony Boynes

Date: 11:01:59 02/12/02

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On February 12, 2002 at 13:23:29, Otello Gnaramori wrote:

>On February 12, 2002 at 12:32:12, Frank Nelson wrote:
>
>>I went to Genna SoSonko's site on the chessbase's website and got a virus.
>>Luckily my anti'virus program kicked in. So user beware!
>
>Could you please tell me what kind of virus, and how can be possible to be
>infected just visiting a web site ?
>
>Thanks,
>Otello


The Nimda virus exploited an Internet Explorer vulnerability that allowed the
automatic transmission and execution of code when the web site was visited.



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