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Help & How-To: Worm delivers Christmas in November

Christmas has come early in the worldof Internet viruses. Navidad is a wormfrom South America that infects Microsoft Outlook users.
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Christmas has come early in the world of Internet viruses. Navidad is a worm from South America that infects Microsoft Outlook users. The attachment is an .exe file that installs an eyeball icon in the lower right hand corner of the Windows desktop. Navidad does not contain a dangerous payload, however it does make several changes to the Windows Registry file. Full story. -- Robert Vamosi, ZDNet Help & How-To

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