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Old October 7th, 2004, 07:11 PM
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Symantec Corp. is warning PC users about a new Trojan horse that terminates adware on a person's computer, but also deletes files and tries to download code from remote web sites.

Downloader.Lunii affects computers running Windows 2000, 95, 98, Me, NT and XP ...

http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/49900232
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The name kind of says it all, it actually describes my brother.

When it comes to downloading, he is a total looney.
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