Instant Messaging Becomes Instant Virusing
‘”Lol, ha, check this out.” This is the last message you saw on your instant messenger from your girlfriend. You click on it. Now you’ve got an ITD. What’s an ITD you ask? It’s an Internet Transmitted Disease. Don’t feel bad though. Lots of people get them. With a little help, you can get it cured too.
A recent story in DiamondBack, the University of Maryland’s student newspaper, discussed the misadventures of some students who got a little excited and forgot protection. Now, they’ve got a virus and it’s shutting their system down.
These social diseases seem to be contagious as the university’s IT office told the Diamondback dozens of reports of a bot infecting dorm computers had been coming in and it was the highest number of viruses they’d seen in several years….’
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