http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/virus/ en-us Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:23:18 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2092986/posts Beware! If you get an e-mail with "Nude Photos of Sarah Palin" in the subject line, do not open it. It might contain a virus. If you get an e-mail with "Nude Photos of Hillary Clinton", do not open it. It might contain nude photos of Hillary Clinton. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2092986/posts#comment Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:23:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2091994/posts If you get an e-mail with "Nude Photos of Sarah Palin" in the subject line, do not open it. It might contain a virus. If you get an e-mail with "Nude Photos of Hillary Clinton," do not open it. It might contain nude photos of Hillary Clinton. email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2091994/posts#comment Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:03:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2089180/posts I received this email from COMCAST this morning: Dear Comcast Subscriber: ACTION REQUIRED: Comcast has determined that your computer(s) have been used to send unsolicited email ("spam"), which is generally an indicator of a virus. For your own protection and that of other Comcast customers, we have taken steps to prevent further transmission of spam from your computer(s). Comcast.Net WebMail Users If you use a web browser to access your email, this change will not affect your service. However, it is important that you take steps to remove the virus and secure your computer(s). This can be done by using... comcast http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2089180/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:23:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085007/posts Spam Whackers Blog Exposing Various Types of Spam - Offering SEO & Webmaster Tips ICS Monitoring Team Email Virus September 13th, 2008 · Posted in E-Mail Spam, Viruses/Trojans · 0 Comments Written By: Connie The email appears to be from the ICS Monitoring Team. The currant subject is “Your internet access is going to get suspended”. Basically the email says that you have been caught downloading illegal software, or music. Read the rest of this entry » Blocked User Agents August 31st, 2008 · Posted in SEO General · 0 Comments Written By: Connie I just added a page... Spam whackers blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085007/posts#comment Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:52:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2079562/posts Bush Derangement Syndrome has mutated seamlessly into Sarah Derangement Syndrome. I was going to try harder to come up with original nomenclature for it, but the kinship between the two psychoses is just too close. Probably only a couple of base pairs changed here. Except I think SDS is more virulent; it seems to have spread faster, and it evinces multiple phenotypes. Besides the essential paranoia about her conservatism, liberals infected with SDS exhibit pathological lying, just as they did with BDS. The obsessive focus of the prevarication appears to be primarily religious in nature, reaching its full flower most... WhenWeAreQueen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2079562/posts#comment Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:09:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069625/posts 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. Orbital outbreak Space news website SpaceRef broke the story about the virus on the laptops that astronauts took to the ISS.... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069625/posts#comment Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:14:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2069351/posts PARIS (AFP) - Scientists on Wednesday said they had discovered deep-sea viruses to be an unexpectedly potent driver of the so-called carbon cycle that sustains oceanic life and helps dampen global warming. Under the carbon cycle, microscopic algae at the sea surface suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Many of these microscopic creatures, called prokaryotes, become infected by naturally-occurring marine viruses. When they die, their carbon-rich remains gently sink to lower depths, where they are then cannibalistically gobbled up by other bacteria. These prokaryotes in turn become a meal for a larger life form and so on, up the... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2069351/posts#comment Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:36:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2001215/posts A BusinessWeek probe of rising attacks on America's most sensitive computer networks uncovers startling security gaps The e-mail message addressed to a Booz Allen Hamilton executive was mundane—a shopping list sent over by the Pentagon of weaponry India wanted to buy. But the missive turned out to be a brilliant fake. Lurking beneath the description of aircraft, engines, and radar equipment was an insidious piece of computer code known as "Poison Ivy" designed to suck sensitive data out of the $4 billion consulting firm's computer network. The Pentagon hadn't sent the e-mail at all. Its origin is unknown, but the... BusinessWeek Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2001215/posts#comment Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:34:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065308/posts Scientists may one day be able to destroy viruses in the same way that opera singers presumably shatter wine glasses. New research mathematically determined the frequencies at which simple viruses could be shaken to death. "The capsid of a virus is something like the shell of a turtle," said physicist Otto Sankey of Arizona State University. "If the shell can be compromised [by mechanical vibrations], the virus can be inactivated." Recent experimental evidence has shown that laser pulses tuned to the right frequency can kill certain viruses. However, locating these so-called resonant frequencies is a bit of trial and error.... LiveScience http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065308/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:05:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064353/posts I have been hijacked by an adserver/virus. I am running AdAware, but does not fix problem. I consider myself tech-savvy, but this is ridiculous. Problem started this morninng, and occurs on FR, and any other website I visit. Any suggestions, or ideas? Thanks. me http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064353/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:44:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057816/posts The debate about what counts as a living thing is fuelled today by the discovery of the first virus that is able to fall "ill" by being infected with another virus. Viruses are glorified scraps of genetic code that are exquisitely designed to pirate a host to reproduce: the common cold virus needs cells in the nose and respiratory tract to reproduce, before being spread with a sneeze. But the discovery of a giant virus that itself falls ill through infection by another virus seems to suggest they too are alive, highlighting how there is no watertight definition of what... The Daily Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057816/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 02:29:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057545/posts A criminal gang is using software tools normally reserved for computer network administrators to infect thousands of PCs in corporate and government networks with programs that steal passwords and other information, a security researcher has found. The new form of attack indicates that little progress has been made in defusing the threat of botnets, networks of infected computers that criminals use to send spam, steal passwords and do other forms of damage, according to computer security investigators. Several security experts say that although attacks against network administrators are not new, the systematic use of administrative software to spread malicious software... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057545/posts#comment Wed, 6 Aug 2008 19:00:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056394/posts George Ledin teaches students how to write viruses, and it makes computer-security software firms sick.In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age. Grant Joy runs a program that surreptitiously records every keystroke on his machine, including user names, passwords, and credit-card numbers. And Thomas Fynan floods a bulletin board with huge messages from fake users. Yet Joy and Fynan aren't hackers—they're students in a computer-security class at Sonoma State University. And their professor, George Ledin, has showed them how to penetrate even the best antivirus... Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056394/posts#comment Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:11:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2044081/posts In my little house we have an HP desktop and an ARCHOS 605 wifi (amongh other things) and for the longest time they worked perfectly together. Then one day they were no longer on speaking terms. Though each by itself worked out-- and checked out-- AOK. So, after some very careful investigation -- and a $$ an hour computer guy -- the problem almost certainly is a virus, or what have you. So, can anyone recommand a good de-bugging program? We just have the plain-vanilla AOL virus protection (quit snickering) and so...well...any recommandations? Thanks http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2044081/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:05:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044044/posts Finding could lead to new therapies to thwart spread of this contagious, and mostly fatal diseaseIn a breakthrough that could eventually help tame one of the deadliest virsuses known to man, researchers have laid bare the key to Ebola's power: a lone protein that resides on its surface. The discovery paves the way for new treatments that target and destroy the designated culprit, rendering impotent a virus that, though rare, can kill up to 90 percent of the people it infects. The so-called Ebola virus glycoprotein, or "spike protein," was first discovered a decade ago and has been a target... Scientific American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044044/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:54:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043606/posts WHO has been notified by the Government of the Netherlands of a case of Marburg haemorrhagic fever (MHF) in a Dutch tourist who visited Uganda. Marburg virus infection has been demonstrated by laboratory tests performed by the Bernhard Nocht Institute in Hamburg, Germany. The 40-year-old woman travelled in Uganda from 5-28 June, 2008, and entered caves on two occasions. The first cave was visited on 16 June at Fort Portal. No bats were seen in this cave. She was reportedly exposed to fruit bats during a visit to the “python cave” in the Maramagambo Forest between Queen Elisabeth Park and... World Health Organization http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043606/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:49:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040773/posts WASHINGTON: US researchers reported that they may have found a way to flush out herpes viruses from hiding — offering a potential way to cure pesky and painful conditions from cold sores to shingles. They discovered that a mysterious gene carried by the herpes simplex-1 virus — the one that causes cold sores — allows the virus to lay low in the nerves it infects. It does so via microRNAs, little pieces of genetic material that regulate the activity of many viruses, the researchers report in the journal Nature. It may be possible to "wake up" the virus and then... The Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040773/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 16:57:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032873/posts A child porn possession charge lodged against a Department of Industrial Accidents investigator fired for having smut on his state-issued laptop has been dismissed because experts concluded he was unwittingly spammed. “The overall forensics of the laptop suggest that it had been compromised by a virus,” said Jake Wark, spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley. Nationally recognized computer forensic analyst Tami Loehrs told the Herald Michael Fiola’s ordeal was “one of the most horrific cases I’ve seen.” Loehrs, who spent a month dissecting the computer for the defense, explained in a 30-page report that the laptop was running corrupted... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032873/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:26:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/669487/posts Despite the evidence, the FBI won't let go of its "lone American" theory. 1) OVER THE PAST SIX MONTHS, have federal authorities altered their working theory of last fall's anthrax murders? No, not much. On November 9 last year, even before the anthrax outbreak's fifth and final fatality had been recorded, the FBI called a press conference to unveil its "linguistic and behavioral assessment" of "the person" purportedly responsible. It was "highly probable, bordering on certainty," the Bureau announced, that a single "adult male" had prepared and mailed all the contaminated letters at issue. This man "probably has a scientific... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/669487/posts#comment Sat, 20 Apr 2002 04:26:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014139/posts The United States is offering to help China in its fight against a viral infection that has killed 34 children, including two reported Friday, and sickened thousands of others. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt is making a previously scheduled trip to Beijing next week and plans to discuss health issues with Chinese officials, with the outbreaks of hand, foot and mouth disease expected to feature prominently, U.S. Embassy spokesman Susan Stevenson said. The scope and volume of infections brings to mind the SARS epidemic of 2003, when China was criticized internationally for trying to conceal the emergence of... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014139/posts#comment Sat, 10 May 2008 19:11:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010678/posts <p>Since I can't post stories from CNN, please go to the site and read titled story.</p> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010678/posts#comment Sat, 3 May 2008 14:11:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010118/posts BEIJING (Reuters) - A deadly virus has spread rapidly in eastern China, killing at least 21 children and infecting nearly 3,000, Xinhua news agency said on Friday. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010118/posts#comment Fri, 2 May 2008 07:26:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006295/posts Three Viruses Threaten Watermelon, Squash, Pumpkins, Cucumbers And Now Green BeansCucurbit Leaf Crumple Virus, a major problem of cucumbers, was found in green beans in Florida for the first time. (Credit: USDA) ScienceDaily (Apr. 20, 2008) — Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Florida have made recommendations to help growers deal with several whitefly-transmitted viruses that threaten cucurbits and other crops in that state. In recent years, the number of whitefly-transmitted viruses in cucurbit fields, home to crops like cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins, melons and watermelons, has increased to almost epidemic proportions in Florida. Researchers led by plant pathologists Scott Adkins... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006295/posts#comment Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:34:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003007/posts Flu Viruses Take One-way Ticket Out Of Asia, Then Travel The WorldSeasonal influenza A (H3N2) strains constantly evolve in overlapping epidemics in East and Southeast Asia, which periodically spread to the rest of the world along the pathways shown here. (Credit: Image courtesy of NASA/University of Cambridge) ScienceDaily (Apr. 17, 2008) — Seasonal influenza strains constantly evolve in overlapping epidemics in Asia and sweep the rest of the world each year, an international research team has found. These findings suggest that by focusing surveillance efforts on East and Southeast Asia, researchers may be able to extend their forecast of the... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003007/posts#comment Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:11:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997581/posts New And Deadly Viruses Passed Through Sweet Food And Domestic Animals ScienceDaily (Apr. 6, 2008) — Nipah virus is a new and deadly brain and lung disease that emerged from Singapore and Malaysia ten years ago. It is now spreading into rural India and Bangladesh killing up to three-quarters of the people who become infected in some outbreaks, scientists heard April 3, 2008 at the Society for General Microbiology's 162nd meeting. "People are catching this disease by drinking date palm juice or probably by eating fruit contaminated by the virus, or through contact with infected animals. We have seen nine... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997581/posts#comment Sun, 6 Apr 2008 16:33:59 GMT