Word: certed
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...finally, in terms of budget, mini. These days an action extravaganza with computer-generated special effects can run up a $120 million tab; often what all those computers generate is a runaway budget. But this summer's two dead-cert hits are the Mike Myers parody Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Adam Sandler's Big Daddy, each of which cost only $30 million. "Even if your comedy has the biggest star in the world--Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy--it's still more economical than a gigantic effects movie," says Amy Pascal, president of Columbia Pictures, which...
Only about 2,000 computers in the U.S. were hit, probably because use of virus protection software is more prevalent here than in other parts of the world, according to Bill Pollak, a spokesperson for Carnegie Mellon's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). He said computer users could have downloaded a file with the virus in it unknowingly at any point in the last few months...
According to the CERT Welside the virus, which only affects computers running Windows 95 or 98, overwrites part of a computer's hard drive with random data. This leads the computer to think that the hard drive is empty, preventing a user from accessing the drive's files...
...Olivier family made the trip from Groton, Conn., to hear the con- cert. Paul, 11, says he especially likes the instrumental parts of the performance, which include organ and handbells...
...even more tempting target. According to the Pittsburgh-based Computer Emergency Response Team, which fields complaints from systems operators, hardly a day goes by without a computer assault of one sort or another -- from filching passwords to trying to crack military files. In the first nine months of 1994, CERT logged 1,517 incidents -- up more than 75% from 1993 -- some of them involving networks that link tens of thousands of machines. Two weeks ago, someone infiltrated General Electric's Internet link, forcing the company to pull itself off the network while it revamped its security system. "Every morning...