Fighting malware with holy water

Thursday, May 18th, 2017

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After malware hacked as many as 200,000 computers throughout the world, the Russians have an idea: blessing the computers with holy water.

In a photo shared by @EnglishRussia1 on Twitter, Patriarch Kirill can be seen blessing the computers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in hopes to protect them from the WannaCry virus. Read more

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