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The Downadup Worm Hits 3.5 Million
Published 1/15/2009 by george@georgehulme.com (George Hulme) at InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
Security firm F-Secure says that the Downadup worm has spread to more than 3.5 million computers by exploiting a vulnerability Microsoft patched last October.
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