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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested a teenager on Wednesday on suspicion of creating a worm that could be used to create an army of zombie computers for delivering spam.
Some AT&T Wireless subscribers believe a text message masquerading as spam is on the loose and damaging mobile phones in the United States.
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