How to install a computer virus

	20 Million Copies of Windows Vista Sold
...ista were sold; compared to 17 million copies of Microsoft's Windows XP sold in the same period of time in 2001, two months after its release, Vista's index could be considered as rather impressive. However, these 20 million copies include a series of other facts. Since October 2006 PC manufacturers have offered their buyers either a free or a or a cheaper upgrade of their old system to the new Vista. Distributive copies...
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	New Virtual Korset to Prevent Malware Attacks
...Scientists from the Tel Aviv University developed a one-of-a-kind software program dubbed "Korset" that is able to stop malware from damaging servers that run on Linux, operating system used by most web and email servers around the world. According to Avishai Wool, a professor in the university's Faculty of Engineering, the newly created program is able to predict the future behavior of any malware that resides inside a...
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	Storm virus attacks blogs
...Storm virus is back again to infect blogs, webmails and bulletin boards. British and Korean computer security scientists claim it's a new variant of malware that is extremely difficult to detect. The Storm worm looks like a message that features news about Europe's storms. In fact, this virus can evaluate network traffic on the computer and later insert a link to malicious website into user's post, webmail or bulleti...
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	Microsoft's Antivirus Causes Damage
...here is no way to recover the erased messages it would mean that Microsoft developed a program that caused damage more than any other virus in 30 years of user's activity in the field of computing. However, the postings on the forum show that there is a way to recover some .pst or dbx files but only if those are available in the program's quarantine facility. This means that the erased files cannot be recovered; only th...
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	Animated Cursors is now Windows' Vulnerability
...visit rigged Websites or by affecting a trusted site. In a security alert, which was sent to the customers, McAfee said that a sample code has already been posted on the Web. The code is meant to show the vulnerability of the system. The security company mentioned that the malicious software that exploits this vulnerability "has been observed in a wild." The feature of animated cursors is designated by the .ani suf...
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	Microsoft Comes up with New Visitor Attracting Strategies
...Half a year ago Microsoft decided to try another approach in their search engine business, so that they could at least somehow compete with the "big G" - Google. Microsoft tried to convince the public that the Google's mathematical algorithm gave too many results and actually annoys its users. Microsoft thought it would be better using some other concepts of searching. They said that they'd develop absolutely ground-bre...
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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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	More Google Earth Users than People in Brazil
...d viewing their surroundings in a new way. An Iranian sent him mail, saying Google has sallied his nation's pride by not displaying the Persian Gulf on Google Earth. On Jones opinion, the case proves how deeply people care about the way their country is portrayed. Google and other companies are presently working upon expanding and improving mapping software. Last week Google introduced a new project - it offered people...
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	TROJAN ALERT! "Zenux" Steals FTP Access Codes
...ers are infected, the more FTP access codes are stolen, and thus more computers through respective web-site are infected. Mainly Russian webmasters have faced this problem. And they still don't know how to deal with the Trojan. It inserts a code into the template of a site and could be seen, for example, as a small square 1 × 1 pixels in the lower left corner of the infected web-page. The piece of an alien code one ...
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	Google Brings Microsoft to Court
... has recently decided to take on Microsoft in court. In April, the company sent a 50-page submission to the Justice Department. The hearing of the issue is set by a Washington DC court on June 12. However, it is unclear whether the Justice Department will support Google on the matter as it has more than once told state prosecutors to take no action on the company's complaint against Microsoft. Powered by www.infonia...
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	PandaLabs' List of Unusual Malicious Software
...t 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 the Spirit of God was hovering o...
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	New Software Developed to Convert Speech into Avatars
...nicating. The words spoken by the speaker will be converted into animated characters seen on recipient's screen. Later it is planned that program will be sold to be installed on personal computer. However, there is still a lot of work to be done to perfect the program so it could hit the markets. Researchers say that in spite of the fact that software is quite effective in translating speech into sign language, the stu...
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	Most Spam comes from the USA, says SophosLabs
...sage. Another web-security event that happened in the 3rd quarter of 2007 was the appearance of PDF-spam in June 2007. After only two months after the PDF-spam appeared, it gained much popularity, however it was forgotten also very fast. In the beginning of August SophosLabs identified spam messages of a new format: they contained PDF-files, which persuaded the receivers to acquire stocks of a company called Prime Tim...
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	Microsoft Cautions of New Hacker Attack on Word Files
...er to plant malware on users' PCs. The possible attack reported by Microsoft's representatives is currently under the company's investigation. It is believed that the malware involves a Word file; however, Microsoft does not exclude other ways of using the flaw. "Do not open or save Word files that you receive from untrusted sources or that you receive unexpectedly from trusted sources," announced Microsoft's repres...
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	A MacBook Gets Hacked in Less Than 2 Minutes
...he system. As the specialists expected, there was hardly anyone to try attacking a system on the first day of the contest, i.e. via network attacks, as such attacks are very rarely used these days. However the second day's contest didn't last even 2 minutes, as Charlie Miller, the first one to hack into an iPhone last year, drove the event organizers to a Web site, which had an exploit code. Miller was the first to atte...
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