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in place, have a proper policy in place regarding USB usage and passwords," said Graham Cluley at Sophos. "In addition it wouldn't do any harm--if you suspect you may be infected by Conficker--to run a Conficker removal tool such as the free one from Sophos."...

continues to fall down the ranks according to the report. "Russia currently resides at ninth position in the chart, relaying a mere 3.2-percent of spam messages," Sophos said. "This represents a significant reduction compared to the same time last year when...

ways to send spam and steal identities.“There has been a definite ramp-up of attacks on Facebook over the last several months,” Michael Argast, an analyst at security software developer Sophos, told the New York Times. “As the user community grows, the...

of the virus through key logging or spam.  Consequences of the infection is also relatively low, and can be easily removed by most anti-virus software.  The anti-virus company, Sophos, has identified the virus in question to be Troj/Qhost-AC.  This virus...