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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 be a fight... |
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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A new research conducted by IronPort comes to confirm what we all knew: the computer threats, no matter if they are viruses, spam messages, spyware, malware, worms or anything else, are becoming very dangerous for all of us. That's the investment of an important amount of money is needed, in order to get powerfu... |
3 December 2007
16:31 GMT |
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HIV entered China in the 1990s mainly through the non checked blood plasma-buying network and infected transfusions in hospitals. But now, sex has bypassed drug syringes as the main factor of HIV transmission in China, and this could lead to a booming of the infection spread from high-risk categories to the overall ... |
3 December 2007
06:22 GMT |
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We've seen similar infections in the past, but since this is pretty new, it might manage to bypass the antivirus protection and install on your computer. Security company Trend Micro discovered BKDR_DARKMOON.AH, a new backdoor affecting the Windows operating systems which attempts to open a port in order to allo... |
27 November 2007
09:31 GMT |
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WORM_BRONTOK.CE is a new worm discovered by security company Trend Micro which confirmed that the infection affects most Windows versions including 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003. Although the worm has a medium damage potential and a medium distribution potential, there are no reported infections yet. In case you&... |
27 November 2007
03:23 GMT |
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It seems like this is the Windows infections day as a new threat was discovered by security vendor Trend Micro, the infection targeting most versions of Microsoft's operating system. Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003, they're all affected by WORM_AGENT.AFBF, the new worm which seems to be distribute... |
23 November 2007
08:32 GMT |
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A few weeks ago it was reported that multiple popular websites were infected with some sort of malware that attempted to get visitors on other dangerous pages and infect their computers. Today, security vendor Sophos reminds us that it's pretty important to keep our antivirus up-to-date with the last virus defin... |
23 November 2007
06:19 GMT |
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There are a lot of infections available out there in the wild waiting for a vulnerable computer but today's threat is somehow special because it attempts to harm your system by itself. How does it manage to do that? It's simple: it aims to infect absolutely necessary Windows files that are vital for the Mic... |
23 November 2007
01:59 GMT |
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We've heard about dangerous viruses which attempt to copy malicious files on removable drives and infect other computers once they are connected to them. But today's report might be something new able to cause serious headaches. According to security company Trend Micro, PE_MABEZAT.A-O is a new virus which ... |
22 November 2007
04:54 GMT |
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Several security vendors on the web identified a brand new dangerous email scam which attempts to lure recipients to click on infected attachments which could harm their computers. The messages claim to be sent by the US Department of Justice and inform the reader that somebody filed a complaint against the company; ... |
21 November 2007
05:23 GMT |
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Since it's accessible via a web-browser, BitDefender Online Scanner is pretty useful when an infection managed to reach your computer and affect the data stored on your drives. But this doesn't necessarily mean the service is also 100 percent safe as a new vulnerability was reported today by Security Focus.... |
21 November 2007
03:05 GMT |
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He may have inspired the Treebeard from "Lord of the Rings". But how did he get in this situation?First, it's about the human papillomavirus (HPV), a common human virus, is known especially as a leading cause of warts and cancer. It is also the main cause of cervical cancer (in uterus) (95 % of the cases). Due t... |
19 November 2007
13:06 GMT |
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Security vendor Sophos today released an advisory concerning W32/SillyFDC-BK, a new Worm which aims to infect the USB devices connected to the computer and spread every time the infected device is connected to a clean system. Sophos wrote the Worm attempts to install itself in the registry as it only affects the Wind... |
19 November 2007
06:56 GMT |
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As the computer infections and threats evolve day by day, the security companies struggle to design new technologies able to block them all... although we have to admit it's pretty difficult to do that. Security vendor McAfee today released the top 10 predictions for computer infections in the next year, expecti... |
19 November 2007
05:38 GMT |
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It happens again and this is a pretty obvious sign that the virus creators are evolving as they attempt to adapt their infections to every new event happening all over the world. Today, Li Ting of Rising International Software Co. Ltd., told Reuters that a new virus is currently targeting the fans of "Lust, Caution" ... |
19 November 2007
05:06 GMT |
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The short story so far: Seagate delivered approximately 1,800 Maxtor Basics 3200 hard-drives which were apparently infected with a dangerous Trojan attempting to steal users' credentials. The interesting fact is that nobody said a thing until the Taiwan government accused the Chinese authorities of trying to acc... |
19 November 2007
03:42 GMT |
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TROJ_AGENT.ACTH is the latest threat discovered by security company Trend Micro which might come as a DLL file aiming to infect your computer. In a security advisory published today, the vendor reported that the Trojan horse affects Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003, having an overall risk rating set too l... |
16 November 2007
04:27 GMT |
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The antivirus technologies installed on our computers are supposed to protect the data from viruses, spyware, malware and any other type of infection. Supposing you have your computer infected with a virus, all you need to do is start your antivirus and perform a full system scan to clean all your files. But what if ... |
14 November 2007
08:14 GMT |
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The discovery of the antibiotics by the middle of the 20th century seemed to have doomed the human pathogens. They proved effective against many bacteria and fungi causing hospital infections, like meningitis, pneumonia and scarlet fever, which before were deadly. But antibiotics cannot attack viruses, like HIV or fl... |
13 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Although it happened in the past, I decided to write this article because this type of threats tends to become too dangerous affecting more and more users. Back in October, The Hindu reported that some sort of virus aims to steal the usernames and the passwords of MSN/Windows Live Messenger users by sending them to a... |
13 November 2007
06:48 GMT |
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Security vendor Tend Micro today released an advisory concerning TROJ_DLOADER.SHB, a new threat which is able to harm your computer and bring more infected files on your system. According to the report, the distribution potential is "low" because the Trojan is brought on a computer by an already installed malware whi... |
13 November 2007
04:09 GMT |
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Yesterday, Seagate confirmed the rumors talking about a potential virus included in the Maxtor Basics 500G portable devices, saying that all the hard discs were removed from the shelves and only a few of them managed to reach the consumers. Today, the Taipei Times informed that no less than 1,800 discs were sent to T... |
13 November 2007
03:43 GMT |
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I must admit the Commtouch Malware Outbreak Center is a really amazing technology which is pretty useful if your computer is infected with some malicious code. Let me tell you some hot details about it. First of all, the product is meant to provide information about viruses, malware, Trojan horses and other dangerous... |
12 November 2007
10:10 GMT |
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It was an already known fact that hackers target famous and well-known websites in order to distribute malware and to infect users' computers but this time the alert is pretty critical. Mary Landersman of ScanSafe wrote on the official blog of the company that IndiaTimes was infected by some serious malicious fi... |
12 November 2007
04:56 GMT |
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OK, that's smart. Seriously, have you ever thought that you can infect your computer by installing a brand new HDD on your computer? No more spam messages, no more malicious links, no more nothing. Just pay for a Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 and you're infected. Simple as that. But how can this happe... |
12 November 2007
03:47 GMT |
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Ladies know why diamonds are their best friends: because they can turn people healthy. A new research carried at the Northwestern University and published in Nano Letters has revealed that nanodiamonds could be the new class of medical nanomaterials for delivering anti-cancer chemicals to cells without the negative s... |
12 November 2007
02:47 GMT |
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A new survey commissioned by security vendor McAfee revealed that most employees are allowed to download music at work although there are numerous risks when it comes to files downloaded from the web. According to Reuters, the survey included no less than 1,000 computer managers who revealed that the employees of the... |
9 November 2007
09:55 GMT |
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Sex is more than physical pleasure: it may bring benefits on a long term. Many philosophies plead for total abstinence and preservation of the sexual energy for a prolonged life, but science comes up with another story. In fact, many researches have showed that sex has a rather healing effect, on both psychical and p... |
8 November 2007
16:56 GMT |
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Security company F-Secure was recently attacked by a virus, as part of a DDoS attack which attempted to display a message saying that Mikko Hyppönen, an employee of the firm, needs a haircut. The attack was launched on October 28 but due to a mistake in the virus code, it was unable to display the message mentioned abov... |
8 November 2007
06:38 GMT |
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OK, this sounds pretty funny but it is actually a very serious piece of news which concerns our security (not on the web, the real one). Read this: the US army is afraid that some of its war robots such as helicopters, tanks and other killing machines equipped with software technologies can be controlled by anyone wh... |
8 November 2007
04:41 GMT |
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You may have been thrilled by the spectacular fights with laser weapons in the "Stars War". But our worst enemies cannot be cut with a laser sword…heck, we can't even see them! Bacteria and viruses have killed more humans than any other factor did along history. And if a cure against HIV and other plagues of the... |
2 November 2007
06:59 GMT |
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The Federal Trade Commission confirmed that an avalanche of email messages claiming to be sent by the federal agency aim to steal the usernames and passwords stored on victims' computers. According to the Associated Press, the emails come from frauddep[at]ftc.gov and inform the receivers that the FTC filed a law... |
1 November 2007
07:55 GMT |
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At the beginning of the '80s, US received a sudden shock with the discovery of HIV. The killer was there, later it was found it originated in Africa, but how did it enter the US? Now we finally know: through Haiti, brought by just one person around 1969, much earlier than previously thought! That was the HIV-1 t... |
30 October 2007
04:28 GMT |
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Everybody knows that flue hits hardest in winter, but what aspects favor the virus? A new research shows that lower temperatures and humidity are the main responsible factors. Many causes had been enumerated for explaining the infection's boom during the winter months, like people's tendency to reunite for ... |
26 October 2007
03:58 GMT |
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This is a headache-giving job: finding a cure against HIV. Now, a new research made at the University of Florida has revealed the way HIV changes over the course of a person's lifetime into a more lethal form that leads to the onset of full-blown AIDS and new therapeutic agents could target the virus earlier dur... |
17 October 2007
05:29 GMT |
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We know that viruses 'produce' only diseases. But what if they could produce even ... devices?A MIT team led by Angela Belcher, a professor of materials science and biological engineering, has managed to use viruses that cling together in a solution to form fibers several centimeters long and almost as stro... |
17 October 2007
04:48 GMT |
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Here's a great offer for you! Click on a link and not only get a free Kitty Card from Psycho Cat, but you also get a nice virus infection! How about that? I haven't written anything about Storm in quite a while - it was about time it popped up again! You know, Storm, it's old, but always new. Storm is ... |
12 October 2007
04:50 GMT |
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