Posted on 08/27/2008 1:25:10 PM PDT by LibWhacker
A computer virus is alive and well on the International Space Station (ISS).
Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG.
The worm was first detected on Earth in August 2007 and lurks on infected machines waiting to steal login names for popular online games.
Nasa said it was not the first time computer viruses had travelled into space and it was investigating how the machines were infected.
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The laptops carried by astronauts reportedly do not have any anti-virus software on them to prevent infection.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
We need a certification process for anti-virus software. Some of it comes from Russia, b.t.w. We absolutely need to know what risks exist in that area.
Good grief!
As opposed to the garbage from Symantec and McAfee?
I'll stick with Nod32 from Eset (corporate offices in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, as well as the UK and US), thank you very much.
There are other Russian anti-virus programs.
My concern is that the Russian government, which is now on a war footing against the West, might work its way into software companies based in Russia, then modify the anti-virus (or other) commercial software for its own ends, including: theft of financial information, control of computers, destruction of data.
Why don’t they use AVAST? It’s FREE!
Avast is also from Russia. Someone prove me wrong.
Even better, use Linux. It’s Free also.
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