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...headed into the virus's late-summer sweet spot, and the CDC reported last week that the number of West Nile cases has begun to shoot up--right on schedule. By week's end, 470 cases--and 10 deaths--had been reported in the U.S., in 25 states from Florida to Wyoming. That's three times as many cases as in the previous week and nearly twice as many compared with the same time last year...
...allies will likely continue to pick off key operatives, as in last week's rollup of the most al-Qaeda leader in Southeast Asia, the Indonesian known as Hambali. They may even eventually net the movement's masterminds, such as Bin Laden himself and Ayman al-Zawahiri. But the virus is already out there, and it is mutating. It's a relative certainty that many of the men whose faces appear on the Qaeda scorecard President Bush keeps in his top drawer have had their responsibilities delegated to a wider group of middle managers not necessarily known to allied intelligence...
...said research firms had analyzed the virus and determined that its ultimate goal was to mount an attack on Microsoft’s corporate headquarters itself, beginning on Saturday. That would mean that all individual computers who had been compromised with the virus would simultaneously try to break into the site containing all of Windows’ updates, including new software and patches...
...virus spread quickly. Davis said that several hours after the virus was discovered on Monday, it had hit Harvard’s network...
Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services now provides a repair tool on its website, composed of patches released by Microsoft to repair the weakness and a cleaning tool to remove the virus from a computer...