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Both Infected & Infecting

Friday, July 29, 2005

Kaspersky Lab's virus analysts report that they found a piece of malicious adware that was infected with Parite, another virus. They came to the conclusion that the computer used to make the adware was probably infected with Parite. Unlike most other modern viruses, Parite attaches itself to applications on your computers by appending its code [...]

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Running Windows 2000 with 32 MB RAM & Lots of Viruses

Sunday, July 17, 2005

OSNews points at Daniel Iversen's page, "Windows 2000 on old computers with 32MB RAM." Since Windows 2000's minimum memory requirement is 64 MB, this is impressive, but not anything amazing (like getting Windows 2000 to run on your refrigerator). I assumed that Iversen's page would contain a number of technical tweaks to make Windows run [...]

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The Osama Trojan, & What Might Follow

Tuesday, June 7, 2005

The news that a trojan horse attempted to trick users by telling them that Osama bin Laden had been captured is not surprising; malware have created false news events for several years now. However, an event like the capture of Osama would be important enough that it would be relatively easy to verify. A more [...]

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