Circuit City support-site hack installed spamming program

Friday, 2 June 2006, 2:15 AM EST

The customer support Web site for Richmond-based Circuit City, a leading supplier of computers and other consumer electronics, was for several weeks serving up an invasive computer virus to any visitor who browsed the site with an unpatched version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser.

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