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Computer Virus Aboard the ISS

Posted by timothy on from the like-a-little-piece-of-home dept.

chrb writes "BBC News is reporting that laptops taken to the International Space Station by NASA astronauts are infected with the Gammima.AG worm. The laptops have no net connection; officials suspect the worm may have been transferred via a USB flash drive owned by an astronaut. NASA have said this isn't the first time computer viruses had travelled into space."

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  1. Life will find a way. by IndustrialComplex · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And to think that I hated that line. Unfortunately for the life from a meteorite theory, computer viruses are a bit more resiliant to the extremes of space.

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  2. No antivirus? by totally_mad · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To top it all, NASA says in the same breath that they are investigating how the worm got abort and that the austronauts' laptops don't have any anti-virus software... Go figure!

  3. Re:If i know my star trek... by Hatta · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you knew your Star Trek, you'd know that "Make it so" was Picard's catch phrase, not Kirks.

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