Two weeks after beginning shipments of the Korean-language version of its new Visual Studio .Net developers software in April, Microsoft Corp. learned that the software accidentally included a file that was infected by the destructive Nimda worm.
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A new virus can, for the first time, infect image files, according to antivirus software company McAfee.com Corp., a division of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Network Associates Inc. That means the virus could be spread through Web sites containing infected image files and force antivirus companies to re-engineer their products, McAfee officials said.
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High-performance programming techniques on Linux and Windows
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Scarabs claims that it has developed a hard disk drive (HDD) with two heads that prevents disk files published on the Web from being altered by hackers.
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A worm that can compromise systems running the Apache Web server on the FreeBSD operating system is crawling the Internet, but its spread and impact are limited, experts said today.
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