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Pandas pray for your dead computer

Aw Guo on IfGoGo: This is a “panda shaoxiang” version. Shaoxiang, aka “烧香” in Chinese, means go to the temple for burning incense and offering up a sacrifice. The Shaoxiang Panda is a very famous computer virus (worm like) in China during 20... ...full story at Virtual China

from Virtual China on Wed, Aug 13 2008

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