[pchelpers] News:Computer virus strikes space station

Low-risk worm poses no threat, but NASA unsure how it got there
By Tariq Malik

updated 3:49 p.m. ET Aug. 27, 2008

A virus designed to swipe passwords from online gamers has inexplicably
popped up in some laptop computers aboard the international space
station.

The low-risk virus was detected on July 25, but did not infect the space
station's command and control computers and poses no threat to the
orbiting laboratory, NASA officials said.

"This is basically a nuisance," NASA spokesperson Kelly Humphries told
SPACE.com from the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

More here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26425974/
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