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April fool’s Day storm worm could knock your PC’s
Apr 1 2008, Vikas

A new storm worm has hit the internet community again named as April fool’s. The e-mail messages contain links that direct users to Web sites that contain malware. Once the files are downloaded and executed on the computer it sets a firewall exception...

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