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| Klunk... |
 Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:17 am |
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NASA confirms Windows virus reached outer space:
Ah, Microsoft, but let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and
breadth and height my soul can reach. And you can't reach a whole lot
higher than the International Space Station (ISS), which NASA this week
revealed had a few extra astronauts on board last month - a Windows Virus
known as Gammima.AG.
This virus, which affects Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows
Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP machines, was first
detected on Earth in August last year before heading off on its
unexpected journey into space. Gammima AG is widely used to steal log-in
data for online games in the Far East, the BBC reports. And the virus was
carried to the station on laptops infected by the virus.
Gets better: "Nasa said it was not the first time computer viruses had
travelled into space and it was investigating how the machines were
infected."
Probably because the machines on the Space Station are running an
insecure operating system, known as Windows, we reckon.
Space news website SpaceRef broke the story about the virus on the
laptops that astronauts took to the ISS.
Oh - and it's possible that some of us Earth-dwellers could have been
infected by a computer virus sent from space: "The laptops infected with
the virus were used to run nutritional programs and let the astronauts
periodically send e-mail back to Earth," says the BBC. And the laptops
used by astronauts don't have anti-virus software installed.
http://www.9to5mac.com/space_virus
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| Moshe Goldfarb.... |
| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:52 am |
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On 30 Aug 2008 06:17:32 GMT, Klunk wrote:
Quote: NASA confirms Windows virus reached outer space:
Ah, Microsoft, but let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and
breadth and height my soul can reach. And you can't reach a whole lot
higher than the International Space Station (ISS), which NASA this week
revealed had a few extra astronauts on board last month - a Windows Virus
known as Gammima.AG.
http://www.9to5mac.com/space_virus
The real question is why aren't they running Linux?
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Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
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