Word: antivirus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entertaining manhunt, ExploreZip isn?t a virus, it?s a worm ?- and quite an insidious one. Although structurally different, it's spreading as fast as the lightning-quick Melissa and doing a lot more damage. From large corporations such as Boeing and IBM to smaller, ironic targets such as antivirus software maker Symantec (and in countries from Germany to Israel, where it is believed to have originated), ExploreZip is entering computers through their e-mail systems and burrowing into software ?- ravaging files and shutting down networks...
...itself into memory reserved for various utility applications. When it strikes, it infects a computer's BIOS or "basic input/output system," a part of the machine so fundamental that a computer affected by CIH 1.2 won't even boot up. According to a Reuters report, most up-to-date antivirus software should be able to stop the virus before it strikes...
...world. The fact that a suspected virus writer got caught was unusual enough. Even stranger were the bedfellows who beat a path to his door: a Boston software entrepreneur, a Swedish student, a deputy state attorney general, the nation's largest Internet service provider, a whole passel of antivirus experts and the FBI. What these sleuths found, and where they found it, may become a blueprint for nabbing future digital delinquents...
...things to complain about. The once standard fax utility, for instance, has vanished, though if you already have Microsoft Fax on your machine, you'll still be able to use it. And although most pre-Win 98 applications will work fine, old versions of disk utilities like Norton Antivirus will require upgrades. Games like Activision's Heavy Gear that use Win 95 movie features also might not work properly. (Microsoft says early bugs have been fixed; we'll see.) Then there's Win 98's gluttonous appetite for hard-drive space: if you upgrade, be prepared to surrender around...
...University Hall, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III announced that he had worried about Michelangelo while lying in bed the night before. A special antivirus package was promptly purchased to protect the University Hall network. Total cost...