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For a while now, the mainstream media has been reporting on the upcoming ability of Google's Picasa photo organizer to recognize faces, thanks to a revolutionary technology. While everyone is focused on the new feature and the possibilities it presents, security experts recommend users stay away from any unsolic... |
3 September 2008
09:54 GMT |
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Viruses have always been part of our evolutionary process, constantly mutating in order to defeat the immune system, at the same time triggering changes in the structure of the DNA, which eventually gave us defense mechanisms that still work today. Some types of viruses, known as retroviruses, even have the capabilit... |
22 July 2008
10:47 GMT |
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40 years after it was first reported in Europe, the Marburg virus returns and it seems that it has claimed its first victim on July 11, when a woman returning from a trip in Uganda died in a hospital in Leiden, Netherlands. According to NewScientist magazine, the 40 year old woman had visited a series of caves approx... |
15 July 2008
03:49 GMT |
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According to David Harley, research author with Eset (company that specializes in providing security software solutions), there are older viruses out there that can still infect your PC. The infection may get onto your computer before you get to install security software, or even worse, because your up to date antiv... |
4 July 2008
08:51 GMT |
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In the second part of our small tutorial, we'll take a look at some of the ways to protect your computer and how to evade getting a computer infected with any kind of malware. As oppose to the first part, this article is not about choosing the best security application; instead you may look at it as a list of pi... |
3 July 2008
16:11 GMT |
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iAntiVirus, PC Tools' anti-virus and anti-spyware application specifically crafted for the Mac, has reached its second beta stage. Available as a free download, the software comes in the light of various reports of exploit security holes and poor security practices with Mac software. The paid version offers full... |
1 July 2008
05:22 GMT |
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Nowadays, keeping your computer clean and secure is not a very easy thing to do. Threats may come in all shapes and sizes; so, if you don't have the necessary programs and knowledge, you might find yourself in a very dangerous situation. The following article is a small tutorial of the basic measures you should ... |
29 June 2008
07:15 GMT |
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Yesterday, security company Kaspersky Lab published an interesting analysis concerning the main threats distributed through instant messaging clients, poiting that spam and malware files are pretty popular on this applications. However, in case you're one of the millions of users who communicate on the Inter usi... |
28 May 2008
06:12 GMT |
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Some people say that anti-viruses are must-have applications because computer infections, no matter if we're talking about viruses, Trojan horses or any type of malware, have become extremely dangerous and may even damage hardware components. However, a security expert considers that buying such an application i... |
23 May 2008
08:47 GMT |
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Since the 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit China on May 12, hackers, spammers and fraudsters around the world have been attempting to exploit the tragedy in their own unique way: by developing new earthquake-related attacks which could trick vulnerable users and steal their information or get inside their computers. Toda... |
22 May 2008
02:28 GMT |
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Masato Nakatsuji, a 24-year-old student at Osaka Electro-Communication University, received a sentence of two years behind bars but he won't go there due to the fact that the sentence is suspended for three years, security company Sophos reports. In case you missed the news, Masato Nakatsuji wrote the notorious ... |
19 May 2008
05:04 GMT |
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A report conducted by PandaLabs a month ago revealed that approximately 1 in 5 home computers which have up-to-date security software installed were infected and according to the security company, the situation is almost the same today. According to the findings of the study which included 1.5 million users, 72 perce... |
15 May 2008
05:46 GMT |
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Avast Antivirus, one of the most popular antivirus names on the market, which also comes in a freeware version, just got updated, the new release including multiple fixes meant to correct glitches found in the previous edition. The 4.8.1195, available in both Home and Professional flavors, comes with a pretty long ch... |
13 May 2008
04:32 GMT |
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1. Hepatitis B, like hepatitis A, is a viral infection of the liver; the only difference is that the former is more severe because of its capacity to turn chronic. The infection can be detected via blood samples. The virus of the hepatitis B is transmitted from one person to another via body liquids, including blood,... |
12 May 2008
09:46 GMT |
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The language pack supposed to be installed in Firefox 2 by consumers who want to use the Mozilla browser in Vietnamese got compromised by a Trojan horse, Window Snyder, the Mozilla security chief warned yesterday. What's worse is that the plugin was posted straight on the Mozilla Add-on page from where users dow... |
8 May 2008
03:03 GMT |
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The Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo has just rolled out SearchScan, a technology developed with the help of McAfee, that provides protection from viruses, spyware and spam, usually delivered through malicious websites. Since some of these pages may be already indexed by Yahoo Search and returned to the user, SearchScan... |
6 May 2008
02:11 GMT |
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AVG Antivirus is one of the most popular products on the market, especially thanks to the freeware license which allows people to use it as long as they want without paying for it. Sure, there are some limitations, such as the lack of some functions, but since it's quite efficient and available for free, AVG qui... |
23 April 2008
04:51 GMT |
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F-Secure is a company which has rolled out numerous security applications targeting most operating systems out there, but most focused on Windows. Today, the company has just rolled out a new beta, namely Home Server Security Beta 1.00 build 166, a special software solution which is supposed to bring more security to... |
22 April 2008
03:28 GMT |
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Flue strikes Europe and North America each winter. But the virus is not native: it always comes from the agglomerated cities of East and Southeast Asia, where new strains of deadly influenza viruses evolve and expand around the globe, as revealed by two new studies published in the journal Science. "For over 60 years... |
21 April 2008
05:05 GMT |
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Antiviruses are surely some of the must-have software solutions these days when viruses are everywhere hunting for vulnerable computers and unprotected systems. However, there are cases when up-to-date antivirus can prove to be useless. And no, I'm not talking about the cases when an antivirus manufacturer didn&... |
17 April 2008
08:54 GMT |
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Remember the case of Dede Koswara, 35, the Indonesian man nicknamed "Tree Man of Java", highlighted by the Discovery Channel? The man had an infection with human papillomavirus (HPV), a common human virus, known to cause warts and cervical (uterine), larynx, esophagus, oropharyngeal (throat, tonsils and back of the t... |
15 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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First of all, let's clarify a matter: because you may ask "what's with the quotes in the title?" I must explain you one thing. This article is not about one of those popular MP3 players manufactured by the Cupertino-based company, it's actually about a crappy device probably made by some Chinese firm w... |
15 April 2008
06:51 GMT |
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Scientists still debate if they are alive or not, but look what they can inflict in us (and this is just a selection of the most common ones):1. Flue is caused by a virus transmitted through air. The incubation lasts 1-2 days. The symptoms include fever, cough, loss of appetite, headaches. Ordinary flue can be treate... |
11 April 2008
10:13 GMT |
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The Australian division of Hewlett Packard issued a warning regarding the optional USB stick the company ships with its ProLiant servers. According to the company, the stick comes not only with drivers for the hardware components, but also with a free copy of malware-infected software.The USB sticks come from a batch... |
8 April 2008
04:14 GMT |
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The data are gruesome. About 4 million people got infected with HIV in 2006 and another 3 million died of it. Until now, about 25 million people have died of AIDS and other 40 million people are infected with HIV worldwide, most of them in the Sub-Saharan Africa.A new report made by World Health Organization, UNICEF ... |
4 April 2008
10:31 GMT |
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Genital warts are really a source of stress and shame and very hard to get rid of, as they can grow back after treatment. And a new report published in the journal of "Sexually Transmitted Diseases" shows that 5.6% of the Americans get this infection, caused mainly by the human papillomavirus (HPV), during their life... |
1 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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People supporting the Tibetan cause have more to worry about than Chinese censorship and retaliation, there's a new wave of attacks aimed at them and in many aspects it's far more dangerous. The human rights groups that are sympathetic to the anti-Chinese protesters are targeted by cybercriminals, and the m... |
24 March 2008
17:41 GMT |
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The idea that HIV infiltrated slow and steady in London is infirmed by a new research. The study published in "PLoS Medicine" shows that the rapid growth of the HIV/AIDS epidemic during the late 1990s, in the gay community of London, was episodic, with multiple clusters of transmission in a few years, explaining the ... |
18 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Once upon a time when the Internet was young and hackers wanted to draw attention to just how capable they were, the usual form of manifestation was causing as much trouble as possible with a single attack. Security companies refined their detection and fight-back tools, so now the fight has been taken to the next le... |
3 March 2008
10:12 GMT |
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This is a little bizarre: while cases of mouth cancers caused by tobacco and alcohol have being decreasing since 1982, due to their lower consume, a new culprit for this type of cancer is causing increasingly more victims: oral sex. More specifically, a human papilloma virus (HPV), which can be transmitted through or... |
29 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Kaspersky Lab, one of the world's most appreciated antivirus solutions provider, announced the release of Kaspersky Mobile Security 7.0, a new product that offers integrated protection for smartphones running Windows Mobile and Symbian. Kaspersky Mobile Security 7.0 comes with powerful protection for data stored... |
29 February 2008
10:57 GMT |
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A herpes is a much serious issue than you could have thought. These sexually transmitted viruses have been connected to various cancers, from genital to cervical, anal or throat tumors. Now, a team at Adelaide's Women's & Children's Hospital and the University of Adelaide, Australia, has connected for ... |
19 February 2008
03:40 GMT |
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This sexually transmitted virus is more dangerous than all others: it can spread through anal and oral sex, and cause cancer in all it touches, from cervical (uterus) cancer in women to anal and oral cancer in both men and women. The human papillomavirus (HPV) causes now as many cancers of the upper throat as tobacco... |
4 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Chimps gave as the HIV virus, but now they could compensate with another one that may cure malaria. This virus triggers cold and stomach trouble in chimps, but it is harmless for humans. Trials made at the Oxford University found an antimalaria boost of the human immune system caused by this virus in 100% of the case... |
1 February 2008
06:25 GMT |
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Milk is recommended for its significant amount of proteins, calcium and vitamins, but scientists thought to make the most of it. A new research published in the February 2008 print edition of "The FASEB Journal" comes with a breakthrough biotechnology that could bring us therapeutic proteins with the milk. The team a... |
31 January 2008
05:21 GMT |
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Most of the semen is produced by this gland located at the base of the bladder: the prostate. And here is the issue: up to 50 % of the American males (and not only) will have prostatitis during their lifetimes. About 5 to 10 have it at a particular time. This condition denotes infection or inflammation of the prost... |
24 January 2008
05:14 GMT |
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On one hand, vaginal sex is the main entrance gate for the HIV into our bodies; on the other hand, women in many countries (like Sub-Saharan Africa) have little control on imposing safe sex (read condom use). That's why this new research made at the UT Southwestern Medical Center, U.S., could save millions of l... |
18 January 2008
08:46 GMT |
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Yung-Hsun Lin, 51-year-old, from Montville, New Jersey, will get an unexpected holiday behind bars, as he has been sentenced to 30 months in prison. Yung-Hsun was hired as a sys admin at Medco Health Solution, and just after he found out that he might lose his job, he decided to build a computer virus and to deploy i... |
10 January 2008
16:56 GMT |
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All organisms catch infections, from plants to whales. Even some bacteria can get infected. 1.Pathogen microbes are of three types: viruses, bacteria and protozoans. Not all the microbes are infectious. Most bacteria are inoffensive. Escherichia coli from our gut has a role in digestion. Diseases appear when our immu... |
9 January 2008
16:21 GMT |
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AIDS was first time spotted in 1981, causing confusion and speculation. Medics in Europe and North America detected patients whose organism did not fight germs. They died of various infections, like pneumonia. The disease was clearly infectious and was characterized by a series of symptoms, due mainly to the ruin of ... |
8 January 2008
14:41 GMT |
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There's nothing new in the title, we have always seen such a battle because viruses keep appearing while security companies struggle to stop them. Until now, our computers were somehow the same, with a few exceptions when the infections managed to cause serious damages. But it seems like things are going to cha... |
7 January 2008
16:31 GMT |
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I bet you first thought I was talking about a real antivirus... You know, that software application especially created to discover and block harmful files... But AlfaAntivirus is not that kind of program, it is actually a fake antivirus solution that wants to trick people and make them believe they are installing a s... |
7 January 2008
16:06 GMT |
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No, no horseshoes in the boxing gloves, it's going to be a fair fight. Unfortunately. I would have liked to see somebody go up against Google and fight dirty, but I guess that there are laws against this, nowadays, they track you anywhere you are and then they do you in. Eh, well, at least there's going to ... |
4 January 2008
18:21 GMT |
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In case you have never used an online antivirus technology that scans your file with several applications at the same time, you should really try it. Instead of scanning a single file with the downloadable solution installed on your computer, you can easily check it with up to 32 security products through a simple on... |
21 December 2007
02:31 GMT |
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Poliomyelitis is an infectious disease caused by a virus that enters the body through the mouth and multiplies in the gut. When reaching the nervous system, it causes sudden total paralysis. When the virus gets into the brain and spine, it causes fever, exhaustion, headache, vomits, neck and extremities pain. Motor n... |
17 December 2007
10:41 GMT |
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We've seen this in the past, but it appears that there's a new trend among today's Trojan horses: Windows infections that monitor the Internet activity and display desktop pop-up windows related to the websites loaded by the user. This is not so dangerous, but it might be annoying like a baby crying a... |
17 December 2007
06:24 GMT |
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Care for a nice puzzler? After all, it's almost Christmas and the winter holidays will have you sitting around the house, with loads of free time to spare. Brain Sanity is a surgery-based classic puzzle game in which players must confront with a virus that's threatening people's lives. You can even use... |
17 December 2007
06:19 GMT |
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It has already been known the fact that most spammers and scammers attempt to get a higher Google PageRank in order to attract more visitors searching for popular keywords and infecting their computers. But, today's report is one of the most dangerous attacks I've ever seen. Let's get straight to the s... |
17 December 2007
06:04 GMT |
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By now, HIV-1 has killed over 20 million people and about 35 million live with the infection. The race is desperate for stopping the pandemics and this new discovery is a real breakthrough: a semen chemical boosts HIV's ability to enter human cells. Potential inhibitors of prostatic acidic phosphatase, (PAP) inc... |
14 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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VirusProtect is the latest threat delivered through the web, although you may be tempted to believe it's a security solution supposed to defend your system from viruses. In fact, VirusProtect is only a rogue anti-spyware technology, which attempts to make you pay money for nothing. Let me explain it to you. Onc... |
12 December 2007
09:20 GMT |
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