Word: wormed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Studies have shown that replacements in simple genes can cause dramatic changes in longevity, she said, citing a study in which genetically altered worms lived three times longer than the average worm, she said...
Fortunately, there was no need to reassure the population with such sophisticated calculations. People did not weep at the humiliating news that our genome has only about twice as many genes as a worm's. Nothing had been hung on the number 100,000, which was just a bad guess...
Representatives from anti-virus companies think the worm managed to spread primarily because the e-mail message appeared to originate from Microsoft. The attached virus was also a “.PIF” file—an unfamiliar file extension that may have caught the curiosity of computer users and tempted them to open the attachment...
...Harvard network has been flooded by viruses in the past, most recently with the Klez worm that swept across the College’s computers early last year...
...virus e-mail has an attachment with names like “approved.pif,” “movie28.pif,” or “application.pif” that contains the Palyh worm. The files act like normal executable files, and they infect the host machine when opened...