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The fast-moving Conficker computer worm, a scourge of the Internet that has infected at least 3 million PCs, is set to spring to life in a new way on Wednesday — April Fools’ Day.

That’s when many of the poisoned machines will get more aggressive about “phoning home” to the worm’s creators over the Internet. When that happens, the bad guys behind the worm will be able to trigger the program to send spam, spread more infections, clog networks with traffic, or try and bring down Web sites.

Technically, this could cause havoc, from massive network outages to the creation of a cyberweapon of mass destruction that attacks government computers. But researchers who have been tracking Conficker say the date will probably come and go quietly.
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Top U.S. army officer: Iran has enough material to make nuclear bomb

·Iran has enough material to build a nuclear bomb, Michael Mullen said Sunday.
·”And Iran having a nuclear weapon, I’ve believed for a long time…” Mullen said.
·IAEA: Iran still refused to fulfill UN’s requirement of stopping its uranium enrichment.

WASHINGTON, Mar. 1 (Xinhua) — Iran has enough material to build a nuclear bomb, said U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen on Sunday.
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