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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."

2 of 290 comments (clear)

  1. In Before.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The Andreomeda Strain

  2. I only have one thing to say about this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Dumb asses.