Most 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?
... 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 revolutionized our life during the past 100 years. Who knows what it holds for us in future, bes...
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	British Invents Anti-Paedophilies Software
...iations and The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center - the Government's anti-child abuse agency. They consider any protective measures against child abuse online a "golden opportunity". Most children now surf the web without parental supervision and as many as one in seven kids is approached by web sex offender. Mr.Hildreth now offers the program for free to the first 10,000 people registering on his site...
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	PandaLabs' List of Unusual Malicious Software
...7 there were dozens of new viruses and malware coming, which were based on very ingenious algorithms and did some funny things, partly. Based on this fact folks at PandaLabs 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 Bi...
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	Scientists to Use New Method of Tracing the Origin of Life on Earth
...e research paper, in order to map out the evolutionary histories of retroelements scientists used 11 groups of the retroelement proteins, which ranged from bacteria to human HIV. Researchers used a computer algorithm to create evolutionary profiles that are compared all-against-all. But the new method can not only track the evolutionary histories ...
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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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	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's Antivirus Causes Damage
... the issue. He said that this problem was reported over a year ago and though the issue was fixed in the 1.0 release and it never appeared in the beta version but it did in the new 1.5 release. In a Computerworld statement, the spokesperson of the software giant outlined that the company is fixing the problem of the antivirus that mistakenly deleted the .pst files of Outlook and the .dbx files of Outlook Express when it ...
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	Chemical Found in Cosmetics, Soaps and Lubricants is Hazardous for Men
...thnic, cross-section sampling of the population 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...
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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
...Ambien and Lunest are often prescribed sleeping pills. These pills, however, cause the most strange side effects. The Food and Drug Administration reported yesterday such strange behavior as eating or driving while asleep. These reports have provoked the F.D.E. to order the drug makers to make certain fliers for such sleeping drugs, where patients could read detailed instructions on how to use them. The investigation of...
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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
...at government's drug policy was not paying enough attention to modern state of affairs and didn't take notice of the scientific findings. There should be no surprise that ecstasy drug was placed almost at the end of the list. One person a day dies from acute alcohol poisoning in comparison to 10 people a year who die from ecstasy overdose. A new classification brings to light many issues concerning drug policy with...
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