A virus that hit search engines

[Shahin Aghajani]

Recently a new computer virus made its effect of many search engines
(Yahoo, Google and others). The virus infected millions of computers
worldwide, taxing the search engines, causing major slow downs. The
virus attaches itself to the persons computer and starts searches for
email addresses from the person computer.

The spokespersons of Google, Yahoo, AltaVista (owned my Yahoo) and Lycos
Inc. all agreed that the virus, although new, is really not a major
threat against them.

Many viruses of this type: Activate when computer users open the
infected attachment, received with their email. Searches the users
computer for emails addresses, and sends emails to those addresses.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2004/07/27/ap1471901.html

[Danial Mariampillai]

Post by Shahin Aghajani
Recently a new computer virus made its effect of many search engines
(Yahoo, Google and others). The virus infected millions of computers
worldwide, taxing the search engines, causing major slow downs. The
virus attaches itself to the persons computer and starts searches for
email addresses from the person computer.
The spokespersons of Google, Yahoo, AltaVista (owned my Yahoo) and Lycos
Inc. all agreed that the virus, although new, is really not a major
threat against them.
Many viruses of this type: Activate when computer users open the
infected attachment, received with their email. Searches the users
computer for emails addresses, and sends emails to those addresses.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2004/07/27/ap1471901.html

After reading Shahin Aghajani's summary on the effects of the new virus
which infected google and other major search engines, leads to the
question how dependant we are on this technology. Although google is
simply a search engine, which is soley meant to be used as a tool, it
evident that it means much more to us. This is seen as the amount of
inconvienence and stopage that occured due to a website shutting down.
Perhaps this attack can be a wakeup call to us, and hopefully in the
future we wont leave ourselves dependent on a service, allowing
criminals to siege our daily life.

[Maria Osipova]

Post by Shahin Aghajani
Recently a new computer virus made its effect of many search engines
(Yahoo, Google and others). The virus infected millions of computers
worldwide, taxing the search engines, causing major slow downs. The
virus attaches itself to the persons computer and starts searches for
email addresses from the person computer.
The spokespersons of Google, Yahoo, AltaVista (owned my Yahoo) and Lycos
Inc. all agreed that the virus, although new, is really not a major
threat against them.
Many viruses of this type: Activate when computer users open the
infected attachment, received with their email. Searches the users
computer for emails addresses, and sends emails to those addresses.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2004/07/27/ap1471901.html

Seems like I have a similar virus, pretty nasty, really slows down your
computer, and weird things start happening, like downloads appear that I
never downloaded, very hard to get rid of it, it locks access to the
files and renames itself constantly. Hope someone develops an antivirus
to this thing.

[Sara Mai]

Post by Shahin Aghajani
Recently a new computer virus made its effect of many search engines
(Yahoo, Google and others). The virus infected millions of computers
worldwide, taxing the search engines, causing major slow downs. The
virus attaches itself to the persons computer and starts searches for
email addresses from the person computer.
The spokespersons of Google, Yahoo, AltaVista (owned my Yahoo) and Lycos
Inc. all agreed that the virus, although new, is really not a major
threat against them.
Many viruses of this type: Activate when computer users open the
infected attachment, received with their email. Searches the users
computer for emails addresses, and sends emails to those addresses.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2004/07/27/ap1471901.html

Hearing these sorts of things make me scared. I worry that the future of
technology will be full of bugs and ways for criminals to beat the
system. Looks like the government will need to spend millions of dollars
more to fight these criminals.

[Sara Mai]

Post by Shahin Aghajani
Recently a new computer virus made its effect of many search engines
(Yahoo, Google and others). The virus infected millions of computers
worldwide, taxing the search engines, causing major slow downs. The
virus attaches itself to the persons computer and starts searches for
email addresses from the person computer.
The spokespersons of Google, Yahoo, AltaVista (owned my Yahoo) and Lycos
Inc. all agreed that the virus, although new, is really not a major
threat against them.
Many viruses of this type: Activate when computer users open the
infected attachment, received with their email. Searches the users
computer for emails addresses, and sends emails to those addresses.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2004/07/27/ap1471901.html

Hearing these sorts of things make me scared. I worry that the future of
technology will be full of bugs and ways for criminals to beat the
system. Looks like the government will need to spend millions of dollars
more to fight these criminals.