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Daily Our science section has been expanded to every day from just Tuesday I have all the room I need

YOU MIGHT MAKE ME RECONSIDER MY OPINION OF THE MEDIA

Just the facts, ma'am Just the facts

HA HA WE'VE JUST TOUCHED THE SURFACE ON FREEDOM, BUT THE WORD'S OUT FREEDOM WILL BE AS GOOD AS DEAD IN DAYS THE NUMBER OF VIRUSES MUST NUMBER IN THE HUNDREDS IT'S INCREDIBLE I'VE SEEN A LOT OF VIRUSES, BUT NONE LIKE THIS IT'S ALMOST AS THOUGH THEY WERE BUILT ON AN assEMBLY LINE SOME ARE REAL CLOSE TO EACH OTHER, EVEN DO THE SAME THINGS, BUT THEIR SIGNATURES ARE DIFFER- ENT MAKING IT EXTRA HARD TO DETECT THEM EACH ONE WILL HAVE TO BE DONE INDIVIDUALLY

I suggest we start with the dGraph viruses You said 54, right?

SO FAR

Send et it into tomor- row's paper They usually leave a little room

I'LL SEND DGVIRUSRPT IT'S IN ASCII FORMAT, EASY TO READ INTO ANY FILE YOU'RE WORKING WITH

I think I can handle it

DGRAPH VIRUS LIST by Scott Mason

The dGraph Virus Crisis has set the co effects including stock prices, delayed purchasing, contract cancellation and a bevy of reported lawsuits in the

All the saated, and the New York City Ti daily infor the viruses DGraph is non to contain at least 54 different viruses, each designed to exe- cute different for to computer security experts there are tays to deal with the present virus crisis The best way to make sure that an active security system is in place in your coreed by hly susceptible desktop and laptop personal computers, should be hardware based Security in soft- ware is viewed to be ineffective against well designed viruses or other offensive software mechanisms

The second way to combat the effects of the dGraph Virus, but certainly not as effective, is to build a library of virus signa- tures and search all of your computers for matches that would indicate a viral infection This technique isviruses cause the signature to change every ti the virus unidentifiable There is no way to be sure that all strains have been identified Plus, there is no defense against subsequent viral attacks, requiring defensive measures to be reinstituted every time

Preliminary predictions by computer software experts are that between 1 and 5 million IBM compatible computers will be severely effected by the dGraph Viruses Computers tied to local area and wide area networks are likely to be hit hardest

Beginning today, ill publish the known dGraph Virus charac- teristics daily to help disseminate the defensive information as rapidly as possible

dGraph Version 30

Virus 1 Detonation Date: 2/2/XX Syht

Size: 2413 Signature: 0F 34 E4 DD 81 A1 C3 34 34 34

Virus 2, 3, 4, 5 Same as above but different dates

2/3/XX, 2/4/XX, 2/5/XX, 2/6/XX

Virus 6 Detonation Date: 2/2/XX Synature: E4 EE 56 01 01 C1 C1 00 01 02

Virus 7 Detonation Date: 1/22/XX Synature: 00 F1 8E E3 AA 01 F5 6B 0B 0D

Virus 8 Detonation Date: 1/23/XX Sy failure

Requires hard disk to be replaced

Size: 2876 Signature: FF 45 7A 20 96 E6 22 1F 07 0F 2E