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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. Let's just say... by ryane67 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Thanks for 3rd party apps like GAIM and Trillian.

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