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Consumer Alert from Consumer-Bits:

As is the nature of some “folk” who like to take advantage of the latest trend, so too are they taking advantage of the Usama bin Laden situation.

The FBI itself has announced a consumer alert warning the public that there are a flurry of emails and Facebook and Twitter links and such purporting to show either images or video of the situation related to bin Laden’s death.

Yet the links and such have destructive computer viruses associated with them on the other side.

“This malicious software, or “malware,” can embed itself in computers and spread to users’ contact lists, thereby infecting the systems of associates, friends, and family members. These viruses are often programmed to steal your personally identifiable information.”

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With that, I am going to reiterate a few warnings, suggestions and some common sense practice about dealing with computer viruses.

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