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Twitter users warned over new virus

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Personal: Online safety, Social networking, Viruses

Twitter users have today been warned about a new virus spreading through malicious links on the micro-blogging site.

The virus, which is thought to have been activated earlier this week, works by tempting users to click on bogus links that use Google’s URL shortener http://goo.gl. The links allow the scammers to hijack your account and send further malicious links to your followers.

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