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Pieter van Dokkum, astronomer at Yale University, and his colleague Charlie Conroy, from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, suggests in a new study that the universe might hold three times more stars than previously thought. The suggestion could come in handy for astrophysicists working on matters related to dark matter.
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WLM being plagued with malicious worms is nothing new. A significant portion of the viruses affecting WLM utilizes a method where the worm send infected links through the messaging functions to its victims. The victims would upon arrival be infected and, in turn, send links to their contacts. As an attempt to stop this activity, the developing team has decided to cut active links, meaning you would manually have to copy and paste the links to your browser.

Normally, when Messenger sees a web address in a conversation it is turned into a hyperlink which, when clicked, automatically opens in a web browser. This feature makes it very easy for the malicious worm to be unknowingly installed on your computer by clicking on the link and being sent to a web site containing the malicious software. See the WLM blog.

User of the Windows Live Messenger 2011 are reportedly not affected by this since later versions has the Link Safety feature. It automatically blocks malicious links, protecting the victims from worms.