Posts Tagged ‘ virus ’

Fake Postcards Will Infect Your Computer

Fake Postcards Will Infect Your Computer

Fake Internet postcards circulating through e-mail inboxes worldwide are carrying links to the virus known as Zeus Bot. Zeus Bot has been named Americaâ’s most pervasive computer Botnet virus by Network World magazine, reportedly infecting 3.6 million U.S. computers. These fake postcards ask users to click and download to view the contents, and as soon as that click is made the Zeus Bot malware has infected their computers. Once on a userâ’s computer, Zeus Bot will give cyber criminals access to passwords and account numbers for bank, e-mail and other sensitive online accounts.  Scared? You should be. A Botnet...

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Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is Gay

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is Gay

The UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Spam Data Mine is seeing new escalations in the so-called “Russian-Georgian Cyber War”. More than 500 e-mails were received in a 90 minutes period this morning at UAB claiming to be a BBC story revealing that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is homosexual. â’Clicking on the headline or the image, which is really being loaded from the BBC Web site, will take e-mail readers to a virus-laden Web page,â’ said Gary Warner, UAB Director of Computer Forensics Research. â’The danger is that almost no anti-virus products detected this virus when it began to...

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What is Happening to the Bees Update

What is Happening to the Bees Update

Scientists at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), located in Edgewood, MD, working with scientists at the University of Montana and industry partners Bee Alert Technology, Inc. and BVS, Inc. have discovered in U.S. honeybees a virus only before identified in European honeybees. The invading bee virus newly discovered in the U.S. is called Varroa Destructor Virus -1 (VDV-1). First definitively identified in Europe in 2006, VDV-1 is carried by both honeybees and the tiny varroa mites that affect them. VDV-1 is related to a family of paralytic viruses that causes a breakdown of some membranes. In silkworms the...

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