But millions of people didn't--and Scob is still out there today, infecting a screen near you.

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An employee had used that machine to download music lyrics from a Web site that Scob had infected.

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And while many viruses exploit well-known holes in Microsoft software, Scob aims at vulnerabilities no one had detected before.

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Law enforcement officials continue to probe Scob's links to organized crime in Russia.

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When Microsoft first learned of Scob, it advised users to disable a part of Internet Explorer because it couldn't stop the new virus.

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The latter faces competition from Amour's Jean-Louis Trintignant, while Holy Motors' Edith Scob competes with Amour's Isabelle Huppert in the supporting actress category.

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Microsoft learned of Scob last June, and at first it advised users to disable a part of Internet Explorer because it couldn't stop the new virus.

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In September a national retailer based in Ohio discovered that Scob had weaseled its way into headquarters, taking up residence on a server used for clearing credit card transactions.

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Once Scob's writers--most likely an organized band of code-crunchers in Russia--spotted that retail server, they were able to then implant a "Trojan horse" on it to collect credit card data and zap the info over the Internet to 16 separate computers in Russia.

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