Myspace - A place for viruses


	Myspace - A place for viruses

ericw

8-18-2006 10:21 AM

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myspace, virus, pc, web, ie, firefox

ericw says:

Yet another reason why to use Firefox. What the article does not mention is that the viruses exploit ActiveX in windows Internet Explorer.

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8-18-2006 4:29 PM

Merican

MySpace = where high school an college students go. As professors have known for a decade, college student computer files are virus attractors.

10-29-2006 3:50 PM

coolcatevie

Goodness, this is obvious. This has been happening almost since the beginning. Nothing new. Silly computer experts.

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