What's neat is that users can manually disable a connection with these apps anytime they want, and when they do, these third-party developers are required to delete user data from their servers.

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Naturally, when users learned of the issue this weekend, some wanted to disconnect their credit card accounts or delete their entire user account.

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Like the original "I Love You, " this variant spreads itself via Microsoft's Outlook software and can delete image files from a user's computer.

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Not only that, the service also thinks it has got a major coup, with "superstar" Instagram user Richard Koci Hernandaz uploaded his vast archives of pictures to the service (although he is yet to delete his Instagram page).

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