9-12-95. NYPaper: "Bulletin Board Is Virtual; Hacker Arrests Are Real." It was a classic sting operation, the kind of undercover gambit that has nabbed bad guys for decades. But the meeting place for this subterfuge was not some grimy storefront. It was a computer bulletin board that the United States Secret Service had rigged together to troll for people who are illegally trafficking in the codes that program cellular phones. " 'Innocent' Files Can Carry a Virus." A new kind of computer virus has descended upon the world. How easy is it to create one? Fifteen minutes after opening a Microsoft Word reference manual, I had cranked out a one-line program that could eliminate crucial system files from a hard drive. By bedtime I had figured out how to get this file to transmogrify Word itself so it would embed my trick program in any document it opened. In an evening, I had created a virus of my very own. This is scary stuff. Scarier still is that if I can do it, millions of others can too. Henceforth virtually every document on the information highway must be considered suspect. 2: VOO_doo