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MSN Messenger spreads worm, not love
Monday, 04 April 2005, 21:01 GMT

The Chod.B worm, which was first discovered on April Fool's day, spreads via e-mail purportedly from Microsoft, and security vendors Symantec and Trend Micro.

When using MSN Messenger as its propagation tool, the virus sends out messages to contacts from the infected user's address book, warning them that they are about to receive a file. The virus then sends a file designed to infect the recipient.

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