'Pretty Girl' virus hits computers across Vietnam

Over 20,000 computers were infected in a day by a new computer virus unleashed by a Vietnamese programmer, the first of its kind in the country, an Internet security official said Tuesday. The ‘Gai Xinh’ (Pretty Girl) virus uses Yahoo Messenger to infect computers when users click on a link ostensibly from an instant messenger contact.

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