Now what did you make of the recent Love Bug virus that seemed to spread so widely and certainly capture people's imagination.

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Within the past couple of weeks we saw a few strains of the Love Bug which were starting to delete files on the system.

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Among the organisations affected by the Love Bug were the US State Department and the CIA, the UK parliament, and major companies like Ford and Time-Warner.

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In a separate statement also aimed at improving consumer confidence, the Commission said it was looking at ways of fighting computer crime following the damage caused by Thursday's Love Bug virus.

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"The Love Bug is a warning to us all that security must be given top priority if consumer and user confidence is to be maintained as we move into the information age, " IT commissioner Erkki Liikanen said.

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Glitches, like the recent IM bug and the aforementioned service outages, do not make its users love it less.

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