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From brand new laptop to infected by pressing 'on'

September 13, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A customer in Shenzhen, China, took a brand new laptop out of its box and booted it up for the first time. But as the screen lit up, the computer began taking on a life of its own. The machine, triggered by a virus hidden in its hard drive, began searching across the Internet for another computer....

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