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New Worm Starts Munching MSN Users

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the day-zero-install-windows-learn-spanish dept.

Kosmik writes "It appears that MSN has been struck by a vindictive new worm, according to security company Panda Software. The worm, acting in the vein of movies like the Ring and FearDotCom, delivers a fateful terror message and then proceeds to disable most of your protection software like anti-virus,firewalls and even your Windows control apps (TaskManager, Regedit). It distributes itself to all your MSN contacts by sending a video called 'Fantasma.'"

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  1. Re:On a related note (well, not really) by schon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Anyone else have a hard time here reading Slashdot now that it's gone to this new layout/theme?

    I used to.

    Is there any way I can go back to a Slashdot that values content over style?

    Yes. Install Stylish, and then go here or here.