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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
... 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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  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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  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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  TROJAN ALERT! "Zenux" Steals FTP Access Codes
...n the Internet have been infected by a malicious program, called Zenux. This Trojan infects different sites and then spreads through these sites on PCs of the visitors. Presumably, the Zenux attacks computers and steals all FTP access logins and passwords, and starts copying itself onto web-pages through their FTP-server connections. A chain reaction starts: the more computers are infected, the more FTP access codes are ...
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  PandaLabs' List of Unusual Malicious Software
...as been infected, I repeat, you computer has been infected and your system files have been erased. I'm sorry! Have a nice day!". Keep away from suspicious web-pages. Sex is not the only thing that needs protection during the act, Internet is also one of these. Use protective software, use anti-viruses while browsing! Powered by www.infoniac.com. ...
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  Most Spam comes from the USA, says SophosLabs
...f the top spammer-countries. The expert added that this level of spamming is not just a matter of a few highly motivated cyber-criminals, because spammers all over the world use thousands of 'zombie' computers located on the USA territory to send spam. In order to solve this problem the authorities should invest more into web security, especially into training users the basics of web-security. Along with these, Theriault ...
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  Scientists Create World's Fastest SuperComputer
... Scientists developed the world's fastest computer that is able to perform 1,000 trillion operations per second. The computer, called RoadRunner, is twice as fast the previous fastest computer IBM's Blue Gene system, which was considered to be the fastest supercomputer, being three times faster than other supercomputers in the world. The RoadRunner was developed by the engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory...
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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
...d 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 computer for years after developing immunity to various anti-virus solutions. "We modified the kernel in the system's operating system so that it monitors and tracks the behavior of the programs installed on it. When we see...
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  Tragic Human Error Lead to Transplantation of HIV-positive Organs
...lthough being HIV-positive, didn't know she was infected with the virus and after her death, caused by a brain hemorrhage, her relatives were not against donating her organs to the people who were in need. Majno also outlined that now there is a very high risk of virus infection for the recipients of HIV infected organs. Considering this case the director of transplants for Tuscany (a region in Florence), Franco Fi...
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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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  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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  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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