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Web magazine publishes, retracts virus hoax story
Jim Krane, The Associated Press 2003-02-07

An online news site published and then retracted a story this week that claimed a radical Islamic group was behind a virus-like attack in January that clogged the Internet.

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Web magazine publishes, retracts virus hoax story 2003-02-08
Anonymous
"McWilliams said Verton and Computerworld should have checked the Web site's registry or his e-mail header information. Had they done so, they would have learned that Abu Mujahid was in the United States, not Pakistan."

Not so. All they would have learned is that his email *originated* in the U.S...

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