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virus attack The virus alert is being triggered by advertising banners on Malaysiakini as a result of a fresh attack on the open source application that manages advertising called "Open X".

Malaysiakini has already disabled the infected system and readers can safely view Malaysiakini pages without any threat of infection by the virus.

However, your individual anti-virus software may take sometime to re-examine the page and remove the automated virus alert.

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Malaysiakini apologises for the technical problem.

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