Virus Spreads Data, Scandal Over Winny
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| A computer virus that targets the popular file-sharing program Winny
| isn't the most destructive bug or even the most widespread. But it's
| the most talked about in Japan as it generates headline after headline,
| month after month.
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| Compared to attacks on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software, the scope of
| the Antinny outbreak is narrow. But the Winny mess has caused an
| enormous brouhaha in Japan.
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| When the virus is activated on a computer, it first chooses a new name
| for itself by taking the names of other files users are likely to be
| searching for -- usually photos or music. The resulting new name
| becomes so long that, under normal Windows' settings, the three-letter
| file extension that indicates the type of file disappears from view,
| he said.
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PS/OT - MSFT was down another 1% yesterday.
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