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Do all of us e-mailers and Internet surfers appreciate the significance of the “love bug virus” story?

We use passwords to maintain anonymity and feel sure an occasional flip message can be sent without negative feedback because “who’ll know.”

OK.

Then how was it possible to search the world and pinpoint a Philippine machine that initiated the virus?

Your monitor may be a window to the world, but apparently there are ways to look back through that window.