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Michael Jackson's death spawns malware, more scams
Published 6/29/2009 by gkeizer@ix.netcom.com (Gregg Keizer) at Latest from Computerworld
As security researchers predicted last week, hackers have begun to use the death of pop star Michael Jackson to infect people's PCs with malware.
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