Internet providers bracing for calls about malware

Mon, 07/09/2012 - 00:09 EDT - Yahoo! Business News

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Internet providers have plans to help their customers Monday and others are braced for calls to helplines because thousands around the country whose computers were infected with malicious software more than a year ago faced the possibility of not being able to get online.

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