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Perfect Dark Zero (Xbox 360)
Reviewed on November 21, 2005
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Security from A to Z: Virus variants
November 28, 2006
What's the difference between "Leap.A" and "Leap.B"? A look at naming of variants. Part of a series on hot security topics.
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File System Explorer 4
Manage your files and folders.
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Microsoft Windows
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Halo 2 (Xbox)
Reviewed on November 7, 2004
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Wonder World Amusement Park (Wii)
Reviewed on July 22, 2008
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Chameleon: To Dye For! (DS)
Reviewed on August 27, 2007
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Zombie tool makes use of Windows, antivirus flaws
November 30, 2006
Bot software that turns PCs into zombies spreads via holes in Symantec and Microsoft products.
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Microsoft Corp.
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Storm worm variant targets blogs, bulletin boards
February 27, 2007
Blogs, bulletin board notices posted by victims of Trojan horse contain links to malicious Web sites.
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Multiplying Mac Trojan not epidemic yet
November 8, 2007
Security firm F-Secure has discovered 32 variants of the Trojan but says it does not mean Mac platforms are facing a malware avalanche.
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Apple Computer
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Open source makes inroads
September 12, 2006
Red Hat follows Novell's lead with Xen-enabled Linux beta, as Ubuntu's founder aims for success in emerging markets.
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Red Hat Inc.
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Silicon Graphics Inc.
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Sun Microsystems Inc.
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blog
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Microsoft Corp.
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Sun's plan for open-source chips bears fruit
September 12, 2006
Start-up Simply RISC builds a single-core variant of Sun Microsystems' open-source UltraSparc T1 chip.
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Sun Microsystems Inc.
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Intel
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New strain of "Love" virus steals passwords
August 17, 2000
Security experts say that a new strain of the infamous "I Love You" virus has hit some businesses located in Europe and in the United States.
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Computer Associates International Inc.
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Is an antivirus gap looming?
July 9, 2007
Security researcher Jose Nazario says the concept of antivirus as the last line of defense has been thrown out the window. What should replace it?
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Ubuntu's 'feisty' spin on virtualization
April 16, 2007
The Linux variant is taking a different tack on the multi-OS tech as it vies with offerings from Red Hat and Novell.
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Novell Inc.
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CEO
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server
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operating system
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SGI's Unix variant fading into history
September 8, 2006
Silicon Graphics to stop selling computers using MIPS chips and Irix operating system at end of 2006.
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SCO Group Inc.
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HP PA-RISC
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HP-UX
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Sun Solaris
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IBM Corp.
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Sun Microsystems Inc.
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Anna virus fades late in game
February 13, 2001
Variants of a virus capitalizing on the popularity of 19-year-old Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova fail to add momentum to the worm's spread.
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Networks Associates Technology Inc.
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MessageLabs Ltd.
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Philippines
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Symantec Corp.
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antivirus software
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software company
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Trend Micro Inc.
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Microsoft Visual Basic
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antivirus
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File System Explorer 4.0.0
file management tool
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Microsoft Windows
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Alarm growing over bot software
April 30, 2004
Many network administrators fret about the next worm, but security experts warn that a quieter, equally damaging threat is gaining control of large networks of computers.
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AgoBot
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MSBlast worm
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Internet Storm Center
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Internet security
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worm
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Microsoft Corp.
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Microsoft Windows
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IIS5 File-Fragment Reading via Malformed HTR Request Vulnerability Patch (MS01-004)
Stop malicious users from controlling your Web server.
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Microsoft Corp.
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ImpianaSoft myName 3
Learn the meaning and gender of Muslim names.
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