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You're right ---
The file must be executed after downloading by the user. I don't know why they are calling it a worm. It is a trojan horse.

I don't know why the article only mentions MSN Messenger, either. Except maybe because the file can be embedded into the message (like a link in a web browser) in MSN Messenger, where the other programs give you a dialog box, and it's clear that you are downloading a file. Then you have to go to the directory where you saved it and run it.

I guess the subject of my post should have read, 'Not on a computer that I'm sitting in front of!'

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Posted by: Hugh Jass   Posted on: 02/04/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Goes to show  IT Scion | 02/03/05
SO TRUE!!!!  Valis Keogh | 02/03/05
SO TRUE!!!!  communications@... | 02/03/05
SO TRUE!!!!  jbaviera@... | 02/03/05
Yeah, users are so dumb.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 02/03/05
Well put!  Hugh Jass | 02/03/05
What's amazine....  dave95 | 02/03/05
Silly answer  bjacob4 | 02/07/05
To infer that...  IT Scion | 02/08/05
Goes to show  communications@... | 02/03/05
No cure for the worm called STUPIDITY  bjacob4 | 02/07/05
What, Not AIM?  jbaviera@... | 02/03/05
nor iChat  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 02/03/05
nor Trillian  Hugh Jass | 02/03/05
Yeah but no but  Humph | 02/04/05
Perhaps  cashaww | 02/04/05
You're right ---  Hugh Jass | 02/04/05
Thank goodness for the Mac  coscooper | 02/04/05
Macs and Latvia  bjacob4 | 02/07/05

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