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Hackers have found a new way to get malicious software onto your home computer -- through your kids' computer games.

Forty years ago, in 1971, the first computer virus was released to the world. Sadly, PC worms, viruses and trojans have gotten much, much worse than a simple text-based challenge to computer owners.

A Stanford University study determined that if a virus is placed on the screen of a cellphone, 30% of it will be transmitted to other people’s hands, which soon enough make it into other people’s orifices; eyes, mouths, anuses, whatever. But that’s the least of my worries. What I’m more concerned about is that cellphones hold 18 times more bacteria ...