Computer systems at energy firm RasGas have been taken offline by a computer virus only days after a similar attack on oil giant Aramco.
This might not sound like much to a human, but to a computer virus it is an age.
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Consider the Stuxnet computer virus which reportedly caused great harm to at least one and perhaps multiple nuclear installations in Iran.
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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.
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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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.
While it is apparently true that the Stuxnet computer virus continues to wreak havoc on Iran's nuclear program, it is also true that Iran remains dedicated to moving forward, despite all obstacles.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Computer security experts believe the virus will be under control by Monday, but ILOVEYOU has already caused more damage than last year's Melissa virus, which spurred many companies to invest in costly and complex computer security measures.
But if Macs make up only 2 or 4% of the computer population then any virus that infects them sees all the Windows machines as being vaccinated.
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.
Botnets start when a virus infects a computer, either through spam or an infected web page.
The scam redirects users to fake web sites that tell users their computer is infected with a virus.
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When a virus infects a computer with a throttle, a huge backlog of requests develops within a few seconds.
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While known for its Norton suite of computer utilities and anti-virus software, the company has been expanding its offerings of Internet security software for 2001.
Take the anti-virus software on your computer: the software by itself does come preprogrammed with some but not all answers.
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The virus spreads around internal computer networks by exploiting shared hard drives.
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.
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.
On Monday, it hit e-mail services across the United States and Europe and was expected to affect tens of thousands of Australian computer users, said anti-virus research company Trend Micro.
In many cases these are older machines which benefit from the fact it is less demanding on computer power than Windows - and is virus-free.
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.
It is believed the virus is programmed to delete some computer files, including MP3 music files and images, as well as raiding email addresses to multiply itself and send itself and other e-mails onwards.
According to reports, Magic Lantern involves sending a virus to a suspected criminal's computer.
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