NASA suffering a spaceborne virus

Proof that no computer system is immune to a virus attack, the crew of the International Space Station is having to update its anti-virus software, after the fact."...according to NASA, this wasn't the first...

Man sues restaurant after passing a 9-foot tapeworm

Two years ago Anthony Franz started eating at Shaw’s Crab House in Chicago.  He apparently became ill after eating a salmon salad, and ended up passing a 9-foot tapeworm. A pathologist said the tapeworm came...

Beware Your Friends: Worm targets Facebook, MySpace

Leave it to malware creators to turn your Facebook session into a remake of The Thing. In this case, a new work replicates by nesting in a Facebook or MySpace account and then sending out copies of itself via the PM...

ScienceDaily.com: Worms Do Calculus To Find Meals Or Avoid Unpleasantness

Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing center that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational mechanism, they say, that is similar to what drives hungry college students to a...

Worm found in shocked woman's Scotch Egg

That is disgusting! " A sickened shopper has vowed never to eat any sausage-related foods again after finding a inside a scotch egg. Fernando Rossatto, 27, had chomped contentedly through two of a pack of six...

Returning Worms build Coast Reef

" Honeycomb worms build the reef by creating tightly packed tubes from sand and shell on moderately exposed shores. Although quite brittle, the reefs provide stability for a mix of other species including...

Man told worms in toilet compost ‘cruel’

Inventive people, those Kiwis, hopefully this idea won't drown in its own excrement..."A New Zealand man feels as though he is up shit creek after a complaint was made about his use of the efficient composting tiger worms - in his composting toilet.  Seems a zealous...

New MSN Messenger Trojan Spreading Quickly

If you use MSN Messenger, beware. A new trojan has already infected thousands of computers by sending what looks like picture files from one of your contacts. These files, when opened infect the computer with a bot...

What is worm? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary

This page describes the term worm and lists other pages on the Web where you can find additional information.

Computer worm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program. It uses a network to send copies of itself to other nodes (computer terminals on the network) and it ...

Worm | The Spyware Fool

Spyware, adware, keyloggers, viruses, worms - they all mean bad news for your computer. It is those worms that..

Trojan - The Spyware Fool

The computer trojan horse aptly gets its name from an ancient Greek myth about the trojan horse built by Odysseus. As the Greeks were losing the battle of Troy during the Trojan Wars...

Toolbar - When it Turns to Spyware

A toolbar is supposed to offer something useful, right? And tools are supposed to be helpful devices that in some way serve as aids..

Rootkit Dangers - The Spyware Fool

There is a never ending list of harmful programs online that seek to negatively affect your system and steal your personal information. Rootkits are one of the main ways such programs are able to function as successfully as they do.

Antivirus Software

You can download antivirus, buy them online and have them shipped you or just go out to your local electronics store but you surely can't live without them...

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