Worms on rise against Microsoft

"The number of new viruses and worms aimed at Microsoft Corp's ubiquitous Windows operating system rose 400 per cent between January and June from the same period a year earlier, says leading computer security company Symantec.

Nearly 5000 new Windows viruses and worms were documented in the first half of the year, up from about 1000 in the period a year earlier, said Symantec, the world's largest computer security company by revenue.

The problem of computer viruses can be huge, overloading computers with messages, automatically rebooting systems and sometimes disabling them. "

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