dangerous computer viruses

	Storm virus attacks blogs
...n, said that some bulletin boards were already spammed. The threat of the Storm worm is that it can mask spam under a real user's post. Anti-virus programs are not always effective at detecting the dangerous malware as this virus is dynamically repackaged and is able to change its appearance and mislead anti-virus solutions. ...
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	HIV blood killed haemophilia patients
...the clotting agent Factor 8 and these supplies were taken from US prisoners. Specialists testing new blood products were neglectful of the danger and used blood from the donors who were infected with dangerous viruses. The official data to prove the terrible incident disappeared. As the government officials said, documents were deleted or not exposed to the public due to its confidentiality. From one of the letters...
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	Need a computer virus?- download now
...Computer expert put an advertisement on the Internet offering a free computer virus for everyone willing to have one. Didier Stevens from Helsinki ran his advertising campaign on Google's Adword for half of the year. As a result of his campaign 409 people clicked on the ad, that said: "Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!" There are several suggestion on people's willingness to download malicious virus sai...
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	Plastic Blood and Airplanes Shifting Shapes – Close to Reality?
... in the U.S. about 100 billion plastic bags are annually discarded. Although plastic initially replaced expensive organic materials, bioplastic produced from plants will probably replace materials dangerous for the environment. There already exists the Toyota Motor's I-unit, an electric car almost fully produced from material derived from sugar cane, corn, and the kenaf plant growing in Africa. Plastics has greatly...
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	British Invents Anti-Paedophilies Software
...speak in written form more often than a child would. In addition to this, software takes into account such factors as sexual content in the course of all the chat relationships. If something looks dangerous, the text will be send to parents When the software find something suspicious it alerts the parents by sending them an e-mail or text excerpt. Adam Hildreth, 22 year old inventor, named Young Entrepreneur of t...
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	PandaLabs' List of Unusual Malicious Software
... have reviewed the list of most unusual and interesting malware. The most religious virus: USBToy.A worm has been awarded this prestigious title. The reason for this was that each time an infected computer restarted, the worm showed the following Bible line, from the Genesis: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and th...
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	Surgeons Who Play Video Games are More Skilled
...ideo games on surgical skills. Apart from surgery, the study showed that video games contribute to improving motor skills, eye-hand coordination, visual attention as well as depth perception and computer competency. Dr. James Rosser, who works at Beth Israel Medical Center and who is also the senior author of the study, mentioned that it might be possible to use video games as a tool that can help surgeons in thei...
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	Microsoft to Connect Xbox 360 and PC Gamers
...on new Windows Vista system. The software giant decided to make this step after its chairman Bill Gates stated last year that Microsoft’s main goal is to connect video game consoles, cell phones and computers. The launch of Live’s PC version is due on May 8. At the same day Microsoft will introduce its Windows Vista version of "Halo 2", which is the company’s popular alien shooter game. Later in June Microsoft Game ...
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	Chemical Found in Cosmetics, Soaps and Lubricants is Hazardous for Men
...lation living in the United States, gathered routinely by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the data from the period of 1999-2000, most recent years that the levels of the dangerous chemical were available, 1,451 adult men had data on chemical’s exposures, obesity, as well as waist circumference. A significant number of these men, and namely 651, in addition had fasting levels of glucose and in...
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	Search Information Will Go Private
...ine for millions of people, Google, announced that the servers won't keep the information on the users' searches forever. Until recent times, Google kept the search information linked with certain computers around the world. However from now on the system will make this information anonymous after 18 to 24 months. According to Nicole Wong, deputy general counsel at Google, the company made this decision after numero...
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	Pills Against Insomnia Cause Sleepwalking
...ample, there have been registered swells up of air passages after using a drug called Rozerem, which is among the newest on the market. The statistics show that Ambien was the main cause for all the dangerous side effects, but the agency concluded that such side effects could be aroused by any other sleeping drug. The explanation for Ambien causing the most of these side effects is simple: it had received the most of pub...
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	To live or die - computer will decide
...Are you ready to entrust your destiny to a computer? Researches say that a new computer program can make life-or-death decisions for disabled people better than their closest relatives. A new research conducted by National Institute of Health (NIH) introduced a software program that can calculate all the pros and contras for further treatment of the seriously ill patients based on the mathematical formula. The decisio...
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	Alcohol kills faster than ecstasy
...A new drug list was revised by Britain's drug experts to reveal that alcohol and tobacco put your health at greater risk than such dangerous drugs as LSD, cannabis and ecstasy. Experts conducted a new all-compassing research with the government top advisory committee involved to make a shocking conclusion on the harm of regular tobacco and alcohol. A modern classification of drugs doesn't reflect the real situatio...
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	Nearly one third of Americans think Internet is useless
...d to get Internet access 44 percent are simply not interested in anything that Internet provides. The survey found that 22 percent do not have the opportunity to pay for the Internet or to purchase a computer. Among the participants in the survey, who do not intend to subscribe to the service, 17 percent said that they do not know how to use the Internet. Fourteen percent stated that they are more likely to use the servi...
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	20 Million Copies of Windows Vista Sold
...nd their dealers sold from 12 to 15 million home desktops, having the Windows XP Home Edition pre-installed as their main OS. Mr. Silver said that considering the fact that all these 12 to 15 million computer owners have been offered a free or a cheaper upgrade to Windows Vista, then the figures are not so impressive as Microsoft want us to believe. ...
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