WASHINGTON (AP) B Computers in at least
10 Fortune 500 companies have been infected
recently by an annoying but only mildly
dangerous Christmas-themed virus that security
experts call ``Navidad.''

. . .

One security expert familiar with the virus,
who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said
both the petroleum company ExxonMobil and
computer chipmaker Intel have been hit by
Navidad.

The Dallas News

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), November 11, 2000

Answers

Thanks for this, spider. At least one large airline was affected by the Colombo virus, with a forced shutdown by its IT dept of the entire e-mail system for two and a half days to clean all servers and install filter upgrades to keep it from returning.

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), November 11, 2000.