This might not sound like much to a human, but to a computer virus it is an age.
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Computer systems at energy firm RasGas have been taken offline by a computer virus only days after a similar attack on oil giant Aramco.
While a computer virus requires some sort of human intervention to be launched, such as opening an e-mail, a worm takes off on its own.
NASA's revelation this week that a computer virus had infected the International Space Station brought to mind images of cybercriminals sending astronauts plummeting toward a major U.S. city.
While surfing on Google or Yahoo, spyware or a computer virus is automatically and invisibly downloaded on a computer, requiring no user interaction for the computer to be infected.
One evening while Donna was working in her room, downstairs, a screen popped up: the computer contained a deadly virus and would blow up in thirty seconds.
That, says Mahendra Negi, chief financial officer of Trend Micro, a Tokyo-based computer-virus company, is bound to be a low-margin business, as all it really involves is translation from English into Japanese.
Botnets start when a virus infects a computer, either through spam or an infected web page.
When a virus infects a computer with a throttle, a huge backlog of requests develops within a few seconds.
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The scam redirects users to fake web sites that tell users their computer is infected with a virus.
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The current U.S. pandemic control strategy is based on computer simulations that assume a flu virus with an R-naught between 1.6 and 2.4.
My mother recently got one of those pop-ups on her computer, advising her that her computer system had detected a virus and that she should do a scan.
The first signs that the computer virus was becoming a business tool for online criminals can be traced to Sobig, which, at its peak in August 2003, was contained in 1 of every 17 e-mail messages coursing around the Internet.
As before, the link likely contains a virus that could infect your computer or direct you to a site in order to steal your identity or otherwise access your financial information.
If the health certificate indicates a problem the computer could be prompted to download a missing patch or update its anti-virus settings.
NGFWs such as those offered by Check Point, Dell SonicWALL, Juniper, Palo Alto Networks and others are extremely high-performance, turnkey appliances intended to stop threats before they reach a computer network and long before the anti-virus software on the individual computer even gets triggered.
According to reports, Magic Lantern involves sending a virus to a suspected criminal's computer.
At that point, the virus installs a program that renders the computer unable to launch any "executable" applications, such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
Once the virus has established itself on a host computer, it quickly destroys all music and image files and disables the e-mail system, causing irreparable damage at some companies.
Now a new computer simulation confirms what some long suspected: The H5N1 virus already has spread from human to human--or at least it did in one case cluster last year in Indonesia.
Perhaps a consumer is trying to avoid catching the latest virus on her personal computer, and so chose to search for that term as well.
Some blamed the delays on the potent Stuxnet computer virus that was apparently very effective in disrupting electrical inverters, a vital component in the centrifuge operations.
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The virus was discovered by a Russian security firm that specialises in targeting malicious computer code.
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The Philippines dropped all charges against Onel de Guzman , a 24-year-old computer school dropout suspected of releasing the "I Love You" virus that cost billions of dollars worth of damage when it deleted hard drives around the world in May.
Plugging the details into a computer model, they calculated that injecting drug users were "super-spreaders", each transmitting the virus to 20 other people.
The Foreign Secretary William Hague revealed in February that computers belonging to the government had been infected with the "Zeus" computer virus, after users opened an e-mail purporting to come from the White House and followed a link.
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