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| Tue, September 21 2004 | 12:21PM | PermaLink |
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According to security firm McAfee, a variant of the Sdbot bug has the honour of being the 100,000th security threat.
This bug tries to install backdoors on PCs to turn them into spam relays, spread viruses or steal personal data.
McAfee said it had seen big increases in the number of viruses produced as creators of malicious programs try to outwit security software.
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