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Author Topic: International Space Station Laptops Infected...Again  (Read 2888 times)

Ehtyar

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International Space Station Laptops Infected...Again
« on: August 27, 2008, 05:20 PM »
NASA laptops have again been infected with a trojan, then brought aboard the ISS.


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NASA downplayed the news, calling the virus mainly a "nuisance" that was on non-critical space station laptops used for things like e-mail and nutritional experiments.

NASA and its partners in the space station are now trying to figure out how the virus made it onboard and how to prevent that in the future, according to Humphries.

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Deozaan

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Re: International Space Station Laptops Infected...Again
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2008, 06:18 PM »
Great. All we need is a virus in our intergalactic spacepods in 500 years. >:(