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...large volume of virus-related e-mail has been plaguing Harvard accounts in recent days as two viruses have infected many computers on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) network...
Mytob is a worm that installs a “root kit” or “back door” on infected computers, giving those behind the virus “root”, or full access, to those machines, Davis said. He added that such “root kits” are a tool commonly used in “Denial-of-service” (DoS) attacks, which seek to disrupt a network by overloading it, thereby causing users to lose service...
...Napoleon III. A major portion of The Plot compares passages from both sources in an effort to expose the obvious similarities and outright plagiaries, a comparison that the Times used to declare The Protocols a fake in 1921. The final, melancholy third of The Plot examines the enduring virus of Protocols, which, in spite of numerous, incontrovertible findings of being wholly forged, continues to be published the world over as truth. Eisner puts himself in the book, as the saddened pursuer of history who confronts a student group in San Diego touting Protocols as evidence of Jewish influence. The book...
...Mumps, like measles, is one of those familiar childhood diseases that have long been minimized ... Virologists in many different laboratories have been working overtime to develop an effective preventive vaccine ... Killed-virus vaccines against mumps have been available for several years ... But since they give an immunity that lasts only a year or two, they are unsuitable for children, who need a vaccine that confers?as the natural disease usually does?virtually lifetime immunity ... BY LUCKY COINCIDENCE, THE SEARCH [FOR A LIVE-VIRUS VACCINE] ENDED WHEN FIVE-YEAR-OLD JERYL LYNN HILLEMAN CAME DOWN WITH MUMPS. Jeryl Lynn...
...junior All-Ivy second-teamer returned to Ivy League play after being hospitalized with a virus that caused him to miss the Red Rolfe-deciding Dartmouth series. Brown and junior Zak Farkes—playing second on Monday instead of sophomore Brendan Byrne—flashed the leather in a sturdy keystone combination, turning four critical double plays, two in each contest...