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Body: here is that document you asked for ... don't show anyone else ;-)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifty is the whole mechanism. Not everyone, not a thousand. Fifty is small enough to look like an ordinary Friday morning from any one desk, and it is arithmetic from there. Microsoft, Intel, Lockheed Martin and Lucent all shut their own mail gateways down to stop it. The FBI's estimate for the cleanup was $80 million.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere was no destructive payload. If the minute of the hour happened to match the day of the month, it typed a line from The Simpsons into whatever document was open. That was the entire arsenal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe part worth knowing is how it ended. Word 97 wrote a Globally Unique Identifier into every file it saved, and on Windows that identifier was generated from the machine's network adapter address. Richard Smith, a researcher and no relation, pulled the GUID out of LIST.DOC and compared it against documents posted earlier by a virus writer using the handle VicodinES. Same number. Same machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Lee Smith was arrested in New Jersey on 1 April 1999, six days after the outbreak. He pleaded guilty in December and was sentenced in May 2002 to twenty months and a $5,000 fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverybody remembers the fifty addresses. 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