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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13HEY! LET'S SEND A COUPLE BILLION TO WOLFGANG
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- World Bank economists in Washington swallowed hard when
- the message suddenly flashed on their screens. Identifying
- itself as "Traveller 1991," an invading computer virus
- announced, "Do not panic. I am harmless." Horrified bank
- officials, who use computers to transfer billions from developed
- countries to hard-pressed parts of the world, wondered at first
- if it was possible for some tiny nation to fill its coffers by
- tapping into their inner sanctum. An international army of
- computer nerds and police experts soon tracked down the
- trespasser and pronounced it harmless. But what about the next
- one? Scotland Yard investigators, who traced the virus as far
- as eastern Germany, believe that disgruntled hackers there are
- still at work injecting disruptive electronic microbes into
- world financial networks.
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