SAN FRANCISCO -- The worldwide cost of the Code Red worms that crawled rampantly throughout the Internet in July and August has reached about $2.6 billion, an independent research firm said last week.

Night owls who tried to log on to the Newport-Mesa Unified School District’s Web site early Wednesday were stymied by a faux hack job that turned out to be a computer virus, officials said.

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