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iPods Shipped With Windows Virus

Any of you purchased a 5.5G iPod with video between September 12, 2006 and now? Apparently, some of the iPods were infected with the RavMonE.exe worm. So if you did, do conduct a scan to get rid of the virus. Fortunately, the worm is pretty harmless. We recently discovered that a small number – less than [...]

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Platinum-coated Virus to become Super Memory of the Future

The phrase “my computer has got virus!” may just take on a new meaning in the future. Researchers have invented a way to coat 30-nanometre-long chunks of tobacco mosaic virus with platinum nano-particles, creating a transistor with very fast switching speed. And by combining millions of these transistors, super-fast memory chips could be created to [...]

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Why Popular Antivirus Apps Fail To Catch 8 Out Of 10 Virus

Think you’re safe behind that Norton Antivirus that came with your computer? Well, think again. “The most popular brands of antivirus on the market… have an 80 percent miss rate… So if you are running these pieces of software, eight out of 10 pieces of malicious code are going to get in,” said General Manager of [...]

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Virus Caused Paedophile to be Arrested

This is really kinda funny. A German paedophile has turned himself in to the police, after mistaking an email sent by a computer virus to be an official letter warning him of their knowledge of his internet activities! First reared its ugly head in November, the infamous Sober-Z is a mass-mailing worm which spreads by [...]

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