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Koobface Virus turns up on Facebook
Published 12/5/2008 at I4U News
By Jim Finkle
BOSTON (Reuters) - Facebook's 120 million users are being targeted by a virus
dubbed "Koobface" that uses the social network's messaging system to infect PCs,
then tries to gather sensitive information such as credit card...
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