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Virus trojan horse
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A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria |
 ...hiro Kaneko, one of the author's of the current study and a senior fellow in microbiology at the University of Washington.
The similarity of iron and gallium made the researchers use the latter as a Trojan horse to 'draw' the bacteria to it. Being lured to gallium, the bacteria will try to use it, but there will be no effect, as despite their similarity, the two metals have different functions.
Bradley Britigan, a resea... |
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TROJAN ALERT! "Zenux" Steals FTP Access Codes |
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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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PandaLabs' List of Unusual Malicious Software |
 ...During the first half of 2007 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 ... |
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Most Spam comes from the USA, says SophosLabs |
 ...g of 9 million spam messages during 48 hours. Users, who have clicked the hyperlink contained in the body of the message, instead of getting a virtual post-card got their PC infected with the JSEcard Trojan. Other such campaign messages promised users photos of naked celebrities, free video or audio files and other bait things, if only they followed the link, contained in the message.
Another web-security event that h... |
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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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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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