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Story: Worm exploits major Windows flaw

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I was hit yesterday afternoon when trying to get on the net. It pushed me off the net and caused my computer to reboot. At first I was totally clueless as to what was going on. I switched to other service providers (as we have several accounts) and I was quickly hit again. Then I realized it was a hacker. I went into my computer cartons and found the Norton utilities I never installed and installed it. It zapped the worm and I was able to surf again. The worm affected over 275 files, mostly my Word files but they seem to be safe after the Norton utility neutralized them.
It was quite a learning experience for a novice internet user like myself. From now on I venture into the space of the internet with Norton utilities. Your site was very prompt in putting out the word on this worm. This was also very helpful to me because I wanted confirmation that it was indeed a hacker.

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