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Published: July 5, 2012 10:12 PM
By JIM FINKLE. Reuters
About a quarter-million computer users worldwide are at risk of losing Internet access Monday because of malicious software at the heart of a hacking scam that U.S. authorities shut down last November.
Some blogs and news reports hyped the risk of an outage, warning of a potential "blackout" and describing the Alureon malware as the "Internet Doomsday" virus.
Yet experts said only a...
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Published: July 5, 2012 10:12 PM
By JIM FINKLE. Reuters
About a quarter-million computer users worldwide are at risk of losing Internet access Monday because of malicious software at the heart of a hacking scam that U.S. authorities shut down last November.
Some blogs and news reports hyped the risk of an outage, warning of a potential "blackout" and describing the Alureon malware as the "Internet Doomsday" virus.
Yet experts said only a...
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