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...infected. Sometimes spyware masquerades as cookies, those little files websites leave on your computer so you don't have to type your name and password every time you visit. Once on your PC, spyware can sequester itself deep inside your operating system in what are called registry files. Anti-virus software won't spot it, because it looks like something you chose to install...
...consider my PC to be pretty well protected--virus free and firewalled. Yet the first time I ran Ad-Aware, it spent 15 minutes turning up and removing a dozen nasty little programs with names like Xupiter Toolbar, Gator Trickler and Bargains.exe. And when I ran it again a few weeks later, five more pieces of spyware showed...
AIDS MYSTERY One of the great mysteries about AIDS is why some people (about 1% or 2%) who get infected with the virus never develop the disease. For more than 15 years, scientists have searched for the chemical factors that protect these so-called long-term nonprogressors, and now a team of researchers including Dr. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, think they have found them. Using new protein-chip technology, they have identified three proteins--alpha-defensins 1, 2 and 3--that are present in nonprogressors but not in AIDS patients. The defensins, which...
...Back in the 1990s, Deng Xiaoping worried about the "Hong Kong virus" entering the bloodstream of the mainland and challenging the Communist Party's monopoly on power. Now that Beijing has struck its deal between economic freedom and political restriction, the virus looks as if it is moving the other way. So what, the Hong Kong administration may say, if we lock up a few dissenters to burnish our credentials with the emperor to the north provided he gives us some economic advantages to pull us out of our slump...
...will test for potential therapeutic value. Early next year, it will conduct human trials of fullerene-based drugs for HIV and Lou Gehrig's disease. With about one-tenth the toxicity of the current HIV drug cocktails, the company's molecule targets new strains of the constantly mutating virus that are no longer susceptible to treatment. In the case of Lou Gehrig's disease, a degenerative nerve illness, the drug prevents or repairs neurological damage. C-Sixty has no revenue yet but will soon announce a partnership with "one of the top three pharmaceutical companies," says its president, Uri Sagman...