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Viruses Infected By Viruses 341

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @10:09PM from the hoist-with-its-own-petard dept.

SpaceAdmiral writes "Scientists have discovered a virus that can infect another virus. The fact that viruses can essentially get sick may change the debate over whether they are alive or not. Check out Nature for a slightly more technical article about the 'virophage.'"

Students Learn To Write Viruses 276

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @08:37PM from the mischief-101 dept.

snocrossgjd writes "In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age. Grant Joy runs a program that surreptitiously records every keystroke on his machine, including user names, passwords, and credit-card numbers. Thomas Fynan floods a bulletin board with huge messages from fake users. Yet Joy and Fynan aren't hackers — they're students in a computer-security class at Sonoma State University. Their professor, George Ledin, has showed them how to penetrate even the best antivirus software."

Comment Typical (Score 1) 313

by neotuli on Tuesday July 25, 2006 @10:20PM (#15781224) Attached to: In-Game Advertising Comes to Board Games

did any of you read the article? "No word on when the debit card version will reach US shores." It's talking about the London version, and certain versions available in France and Germany, not every version ever made, nor the original. Just... wow.

Hydrogen Fuel Balls from a Gas Pump? 280

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 22, 2006 @10:29PM from the quite-a-racket dept.

navalynt writes "New Scientist reports that the Department of Energy has filed a patent for hydrogen fuel balls. From the article 'The proposed glass microspheres would each be a few millionths of a metre (microns) wide with a hollow center containing specks of palladium. The walls of each sphere would also have pores just a few ten-billionths of a metre in diameter.' They are supposedly safe and small enough to be pumped into a fuel tank in the same manner as gasoline."

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