The Stuxnet worm leaves a mysterious string of characters in the Registry on infected Windows computers. The date is used by the worm to tell whether it has already infected a computer. Some commentators have decided to read this as a date namely, 9th of May, 1979. But should we be a little more cautious and look for something more than this? Read more in an article on the Naked Security website. Follow Graham Cluley on Twitter to read more of the exclusive content we post.”]
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