mjc
03-08-2003, 03:30 PM
Virus causes havoc for one consumer
How would you feel if, languishing in bed with the flu, you got a letter from a solicitor blaming you for giving their client the same bug?
The letter demands that you hand over the names and addresses of everyone you know and, on top of that, they want you to walk down the street shouting 'unclean, unclean'.
No-one would stand for such behaviour in the real world, but in the online world this is just what almost happened to Computeractive reader Steve Hamilton.
complete article (http://www.securitynewsportal.com/cgi-bin/news5.cgi?target=www.newsnow.co.uk/cgi/NGoto/25371605?-2622)
How would you feel if, languishing in bed with the flu, you got a letter from a solicitor blaming you for giving their client the same bug?
The letter demands that you hand over the names and addresses of everyone you know and, on top of that, they want you to walk down the street shouting 'unclean, unclean'.
No-one would stand for such behaviour in the real world, but in the online world this is just what almost happened to Computeractive reader Steve Hamilton.
complete article (http://www.securitynewsportal.com/cgi-bin/news5.cgi?target=www.newsnow.co.uk/cgi/NGoto/25371605?-2622)