AN urgent warning went out to computer users after a firm of accountants received a postal timebomb in the biggest swindle the high-tech world had seen.
Other computer users were being told to watch out for the deadly computer 'virus' - disguised as advice on the killer disease Aids.
Accountants Porter Matthews and Marsden had received a copy of the 'AIDS Information Introductory Diskette' through their letterbox at East Park Road, Blackburn.
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