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Parasitic Gut Worms May Protect Against Allergies

There is a link between having parasitic worms in your stomach and being protected from allergies, shows a new study conducted in Vietnam. The study looked for a link between hookworm and other types of parasitic worms and the rates of allergies in humans. The researchers...

Jackson virus and spam spreads on Internet

"Jackson virus and spam spreads on Internet" " San Francisco: Security researchers warned on Thursday of the increasing levels of viruses and spam using Michael Jackson's name to snare unsuspecting users. One e-mail carries the subject line "Remembering Michael Jackson" was...

Conficker C Worm: It's Not Over Yet (Testing and Removal Tool)

The Conficker C Worm (aka April Fools Worm) didn't do much of anything on April Fool's Day, but infected machines around the world are beginning to show some worm-instigated activity. Update: Update: Conficker C is also installing scareware, a fake anti-virus alert that...

April Fools Virus: Conficker C Removal Tool

Update: April 1 is here, and no real activity from the Conficker C worm. While reports have surfaced of infected machines calling for (possible) further instructions, nothing has actually happened yet. This could be...

‘Ghost’ hackers worm into govt. computers

GhostNet, an international cyber espionage network, hacked into the Government of Bhutan's computer system. Eleven computers belonging to the Foreign Ministry department and one computer of the Labour Ministry have been infected with the virus. "Eleven computers in...

Judge Kicks Notorious Spammer Off Facebook

A judge in California on Monday ordered convicted spammer Sanford 'Spamford' Wallace to stay away from Facebook.  Wallace is accused of flooding Facebook users with unsolicited messages, which appear to...

Microsoft Bounty for Downadup/Conficker Virus Creator

According to Arbor Networks the Downadup/Conficker Virus has already affected as many as 12 million computers worldwide. Microsoft is now offering $250,000 to whoever finds who is behind the virus. " Since it...

Windows worm numbers 'skyrocket'

Malicious program, to infect computer is killing millions of computers.In this tough times when consumers across the world is facing hard times this kind of entry by virus is really troublesome.As per latest figures approx 9 million computers are already infected." Infections...

London Hospital back online after computer virus shutdown

"IT systems at St Bartholomew's (Barts), the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel and the London Chest Hospital in Bethnal Green were taken down on Tuesday following infection by the Mytob worm. The three...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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