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Flame Virus Had Massive Impact on Iran, Says Israeli Security Firm
(Ha'aretz) Oded Yaron - The Flame computer virus not only stole large quantities of information from various Iranian government agencies, but apparently even disrupted its oil exports by shutting down oil terminals, information security firm Symantec Israel said Tuesday. Symantec said there was evidence that it had erased information from computer hard disks in Iran as well. Iran's national computer emergency team, Maher, said that Flame had evaded detection by 43 different anti-virus programs, despite its size - 20 megabytes. By comparison, the Stuxnet computer worm that attacked Iran's nuclear program two years ago was only one megabyte.