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From: nick at virus-l.demon.co.uk (Nick FitzGerald)
Subject: Has anyone seen this in their e-mail

"Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh]" wrote:

> how difficult would it be to use random and differnet passwords for each
> infection, ...

Or even "random and different" passwords for each message it sends?

Have you read _anything_ about the recent Bagle variants flooding the 
net at the moment?  If not, please go and do so _before_ speculating 
further about stuff that is already well-known...

> ... pretty easy for a smart programmer or the clever virus
> writer,

Pretty easy even for a dumb virus writer too...

> maybe they are using the passwords to keep track of the version of the
> viruses 

Or maybe they aren't...

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