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11.04.2009 9:17 am

Malware attacks increase against video games

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If marketing executive Michael Helander over at Lavasoft is correct, malware makers are salivating over your gaming console.

Helander was interviewed by GamePro regarding his company’s new software designed to protect online gamers from virus attacks, and in the Q&A published Tuesday…

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03.31.2009 10:34 pm

Got Conficker? Here’s how to get rid of it

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

PC gamers should be on the lookout for Conficker, a computer worm predicted to run amok on the Internet starting Wednesday and considered so scary it was the subject of a “60 Minutes” segment Sunday.

The worm supposedly disables some Windows features,…

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08.27.2008 9:05 pm

Space station virus perhaps came from a game

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

International Space Station image, courtesy of NASALovely. Just lovely. Apparently there are computer viruses aboard the International Space Station — and one of them might have come from a video game.

The virus in question is named Gammima.AG and is a low-level worm designed to sweep up personal information…

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