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    Despite being released in the third week of last month, Sober was by far the most successful piece of malware and accounted for more than 40 percent of all viruses in November, according to Sophos.

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    Microsoft is investigating a piece of malicious code that targets the recently released beta version of its AntiSpyware product.

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