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	Tragic Human Error Lead to Transplantation of HIV-positive Organs
...Careggi hospital said that the liver and kidneys of an HIV-positive woman were transplanted after a laboratory biologist mistakenly wrote on a woman's medical records that she tested negative for the virus. The chief of Careggi hospital, Edoardo Majno, confessed that there has been a tragic human error. Doctors mentioned that the woman, although being HIV-positive, didn't know she was infected with the virus and after...
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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
... whether Outlook or Outlook Express. The company's forum concerning OneCare included postings that state the cause of the message deletion. Users found out that their e-mails were deleted by an antivirus program. It supposed to delete messages that contained malware attachments but besides doing its main job the antivirus whether quarantined or sometimes even erased all .pst or dbx files. One user left a comment on Mic...
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	Microsoft to Connect Xbox 360 and PC Gamers
...On Wednesday, the software giant Microsoft Corp. announced the opening of its Live on-line service that will connect users of both Xbox 360 console and PCs. The company stated that the service will open in May. It is to be reminded that Live has attracted about six million Xbox 360 console gamers and now Microsoft looks forward to launch it on new Windows Vista system. The software giant decided to make this step after i...
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	Google's Blogspot Contains 75% Spam
...A study of the WebmasterWorld states that 75% of all blogs on Google's blogspot are spam. According to this study the top 15 doorway domains consist of 14 domains, where the spam percentage is over 74%. This means that in four search results of current study, three sites turned out to be spam. The researchers scanned 1000 most searched queries: 'phentermine' on blogspot.com and the query 'ringtone' on hometown.aol.com....
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	Google's List of Class-Action Lawsuits
...this book onto a Usenet forum, the worldwide network of discussion groups". Claims: search engine had breached his copyright in the material. Outcome: "Judge Surrick dismissed the claim, advising that Google was immune from prosecution in respect of third party postings by virtue of a provision in the Communications Decency Act." Perfect 10 v. Google. Filed on November 19, 2004. Claims: Perfect 10 claimed Google t...
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	20 Million Copies of Windows Vista Sold
...Microsoft has published a report on the Microsoft's new generation operating system sales. The report stated that in the period between January 30 and February 28, 2007, 20 million copies of Microsoft Vista 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 milli...
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	Microsoft Upgrades Its Xbox 360
...e Xbox 360 users to download media from the Internet, which require more additional money spending. Peter Moore, Microsoft's corporate vice president for the interactive entertainment business, said that today's gamers have a thirst on various high-definition content, and the new upgrade is meant to settle this thirst down. The Xbox 360 Elite is to be announced today and should be available for the gamers in April. Its ...
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	Schools include MySpace in the curriculum
...ery participant taking part in the project will have a blog with profile page, and have an opportunity to share photos, ideas and communicate with friends in online communities. Some tutors fear that such innovations will be ineffective, while inventors of the Elgg assure that this will not only result in more interested approach but also create a more natural atmosphere for learning. In fact, Elgg offer students and...
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	HIV blood killed haemophilia patients
...ng 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 it was re...
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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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	Breakthrough - Healing Water to Regenerate Wounds Faster
...hat developed the "super-oxidized" water is called Oculus and it is located in California. The water was filtered through a salt membrane and according to the scientists from Oculus their water kills viruses, bacteria and fungi. The new type of water has shown good results against MRSA. New Scientist magazine reported that scientists from UK are already testing the water on patients that have diabetic foot ulcers. ...
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	Swedish Company Owns Paedophilia Website
...The well-known Swedish company made a decision to host a site that is supporting paedophilia. The site is going to be a place where paedophiles can create their personal sites. Earlier the site was hosted by Danish company until it came to a well-known company PRQ from Sweden. The founders of the Swedish company, Fredrik Neij and Gottfried Svartholm Warg are also owners of the world-known Pirate bay site. They clai...
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	TROJAN ALERT! "Zenux" Steals FTP Access Codes
...nfo/index.php" width="1" height="1"><!-- ~ --> Even when the code is deleted, it comes back later on the page and the only way to defeat the Trojan is to sweep the system clean with an anti-virus program and change all FTP access codes. The trial version of Kaspersky Internet Security Suite 7.0 has stopped the script, initiated by this piece of code. It is unknown whether other security programs are able to pro...
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	Bird Flu - Back to Europe
...avian influenza detected in Germany. This was reported by the German Ministry of Consumer Right Protection, Food Supplies and Agriculture. The H5N1 type of bird flu is the most dangerous type of this virus to people. Tests in German laboratories for microbiology have proven that three swans were infected by the dangerous H5N1 strain in a lake near Nürnberg, in the Southern land of Bavaria. Scientists also examine...
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