Worm inspires 'comfortable' test
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Scientists are developing a new way of carrying out internal examinations on patients - based on a wriggling worm.
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Scientists say they have found how the body controls the machinery it uses to fight infections.
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Software giant promises to deliver another tool to fight worms and viruses.
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Can Wi-Fi signals make you ill? Newshounds pore over the available literature, but miss something interesting about the claims
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Scientists discover how the skin of the fingertips protects itself against a common bug that causes diarrhoea.
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The virus, dubbed W64.Shruggle by Symantec, seems mainly to be an experiment to test the concept of a 64-bit infecter and is not actively spread, said Alfred Huger, senior director of security at Symantec.
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CHECK out this animation of Bush, so says a message popping up in your MSN Messenger. And if you click on the link that follows to see the US President letting his hair down, you will unwittingly invite a worm to do some fast-paced moves inside your computer, according to MicroWorld Technologies.
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FOSTER CITY, Calif., Sept. 18  /PRNewswire/ -- Research experts at FaceTime Security Labs(TM), the threat research division of IM and greynet security leader FaceTime Communications, today identified and reported a new worm known as W32.pipeline that is propagating over AOL Instant Messenger.
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Further tests are being carried out at a Suffolk farm hit by the UK's first case of bluetongue disease.
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Researchers have developed a new test that can detect bird flu in humans within hours, compared to up to a week or more for older tests.
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A Chinese hacker arrested just days ago will be allowed to release a fix for the worm that he helped write. But a security researcher questioned the wisdom of the move.
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A &quot;modest&quot; number of PCs have been hit, but security-firm execs are focused more on just how fast the new worm appeared.
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Also: Windows worm travels with Tetris [News.com Extra]
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A new computer worm emerged on  Tuesday which broke the speed record from the announcement of a  security vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer to a  full-blown virus that spreads in the wild.
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Clinical trials are under way in the UK to test how effectively it combats the increasingly drug-resistant malaria parasite. The drug is a synthetic, simpler version of a traditional
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An anonymous security researcher claims to have created a proof-of-concept worm that exploits a vulnerability in Apple's Mac OS X.
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A new worm, W32/Funner, is spread over the MSN Messenger instant messaging networks. Experts say it has caused minimal damage, but they say IM networks are ripe for more virus attacks.