[109680] in Cypherpunks
Re: Melissa and Microsoft GUID
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sunder)
Thu Apr 1 11:39:26 1999
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 11:22:53 -0500
From: Sunder <sunder@brainlink.com>
CC: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Sunder <sunder@brainlink.com>
Yep. Also see:
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/31/computers.virus.reut/index.html
Anonymous wrote:
> The interesting story in the Melissa virus is that it was apparently
> created with Microsoft tools, which means that it has embedded authorship
> tags. The existence of this information just came out last month,
> shortly after the Intel Pentium III flap. Every Microsoft user gets
> assigned a unique identifying number (Global User ID), and this number is
> uploaded to Microsoft under some circumstances when registering software
> (Windows 98, so far). The number is then embedded in documents created
> by that user, without his knowledge.
<SNIP>
> (see http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/18819.html, which
<SNIP>
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