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Monday, July 9, 2012

Virus could black out nearly 250,000 PCs on Monday


(Reuters) - About a quarter-million computer users around the world are at risk of losing Internet access on Monday because of malicious software at the heart of a hacking scam that U.S. authorities shut down last November.
Backlit keyboard is reflected in screen of Apple Macbook Pro notebook computer in Warsaw February 6, 2012. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
Some blogs and news reports hyped the risk of an outage, warning of a