The "MyDoom" virus could presage a generation of computer attacks by organised gangs aiming to extract ransoms from online businesses, experts said yesterday.
The warning came as the website run by SCO, a company that sells Unix computer software, in effect disappeared from the web under a blizzard of automated attacks from PCs infected by the virus, which first appeared a week ago.
The "myDoom-A" version of the virus is reckoned to be the worst to have hit the internet, in terms of the speed of its spread, with millions of PCs worldwide believed to be infected. Such "zombie" machines begin to send out hundreds of copies of the virus every hour to almost any e-mail address in their files.
On Sunday they began sending automated queries to SCO's website, an attack that will continue until 12 February. The attack is the web equivalent of ringing the company's doorbell and running away a million times a second, leaving its computers unable to deal with standard requests to view its pages.
"You have to wonder about the time limit," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at the antivirus company Sophos. "Someone could go to SCO after the 12th and say, 'If you don't want this to happen again, here are our demands'." Raimund Genes, European president of the security software firm Trend Micro, said: "Such a programme could take out any major website on the internet. It's not terrorism, but it is somebody who is obviously upset with SCO."
SCO has earned the enmity of computer users through a lawsuit it has filed against IBM. SCO claims ownership of computer code it says IBM put into the free operating system Linux, and is demanding licence fees and damages of $1bn.
Mr. Cluley said: "It might be that whoever is behind this will say to SCO, 'if you don't want the next one to target you, drop the lawsuit'." SCO has offered $250,000(£140,000) for information leading to the arrest of the person or people who wrote and distributed MyDoom.
Nell Barrett, of the security company Information Risk Management, said, "I would give a lot of credence to the idea of gangs using viruses to extort money. It's hard for law enforcement to track them down, because they're using machines owned by innocent people."
A second variant of MyDoom will start attacking part of Microsoft's website later today. The antivirus company MessageLabs said it had blocked more than 16 million copies of the virus in transit over the net so far. But millions more will have reached their targets.
The onset of a new generation of computer attacks was marked by ______.
A.an organization of gangs
B.the infection of PCs
C.the sale of a software
D.a website's vanishing
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Could you()the appointment()next Monday?
A . rearrange, for
B . rearrange, at
C . rearrange,until
D . rearrange, i
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Which of the following IOS commands can detect whether the SQL slammer virus propagates in yournetworks?()
A . access-list 100 permit any any udp eq 1434
B . access-list 100 permit any any udp eq 1434 log
C . access-list 110 permit any any udp eq 69
D . access-list 110 permit any any udp eq 69 log
E . None of above.
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The sensors could be mounted on the inside of a tube/torus that could be anchored in a blood vessel, making the blood flow through the sensor array.
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In the sentence The sensors could be mounted on the inside of a tube/torus that could be anchored in a bloodvessel, the underlined word mounted means .
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计算机感染“MyDoom”病毒后会出现下列哪些“症状”?
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The computer can easily get stuck, so you must __of computer virus.
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In addition to getting them vaccinated ( 接种疫苗 ) against both seasonal and H1N1 flu, teach your kids basic hygiene habits, which can _______ in preventing the spread of the virus.
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According to the passage, scientists have discovered that influenza viruses_____.
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The information of the system can be stolen by viruses.
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The virus is transmitted most commonly through ______.
A.programs sent by modem
B.shrink-wapped retail software
C.piracy of software
D.the use of floppy disks
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The World Health Organization gave a warning to the public without any When the virus of H1N1 hit Mexico in April,2009.
A. delay B. effort C. schedule D. consideration
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The most serious damage caused by the viruses is that______.
A.the computer's functions are lowered
B.the normal programs are damaged
C.the computers infected by the viruses can no longer be used
D.all the information stored in the computers is gone
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The goods are now ready for().A.woolB.water proofC.packingD.Virus
The goods are now ready for().
A.wool
B.water proof
C.packing
D.Virus
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Which kind of virus may probably load and gain control upon system for the first_____
A.A.Executable File Infectors
B.B.Boot Sector Infectors
C.C.Partition Table Infectors
D.D.Memory Resident Infectors
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Decide whether each of the following words is a simple word, a derivative word or a compound word virus
A.simple word
B.derivative word
C.compound word
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If all the viruses on the planet were to disappears global catastrophe would_____,and the natural ecosystems of the earth would collapse in a spectacular crash under burgeoning populations of insects.
A.varnish
B.disperse
C.contaminate
D.ensue
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What do scientists say about the transmission of the swine flu virus?
A) It is easily transmitted from person to person.
B) It remains unclear how it is transmitted.
C) It is transmitted by sneezing or coughing.
D) It is transmitted by skin-to-skin contact.
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Scientists have established that influenza viruses taken from man can cause the disease in animals. In addition, man can catch the disease from animals. In fact, a great number of wild birds seem to carry the virus without showing an evidence of illness. Some scientists concluded that a large family of influenza viruses may have evolved in the bird kingdom, a group that has been on the earth 100 million years and is able to carry the virus without contracting the disease. There is even convincing evidence to show that virus strains are transmitted from place to place and from continent to continent by migrating birds.
It's known that two influenza viruses can recombine when both are present in an animal at the same time, the result of such recombination is a great variety of strains containing different H and N spikes. This raises the possibility that a human influenza virus can recombine with an influenza virus from a low animal to produce an entirely new spike. Research is underway to determine if that is the way that major new strains come into being, another possibility is that two animal influenza strains may recombine in a pig, for example, to produce a new strain which is transmitted to man.
According to the passage, scientists have discovered that influenza viruses ______.
A.cause ill health in wild birds
B.do not always cause symptoms in birds
C.are rarely present in wild birds
D.change when transferred from animals to man
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Researchers who picked up and analyzed wild chimp droppings said on Thursday they had shown how the AIDS virus originated in wild apes in Cameroon and then spread in humans across Africa and eventually the world. Their study, published in the journal Science, supports other studies that suggest people somehow caught the deadly human immunodeficiency ,virus (HIV) from chimpanzees, perhaps by killing and eating them.
"It says that the chimpanzee group that gave rise to HIV… this chimp community resides in Cameroon," said Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama, who led the study. "But that doesn’t mean the epidemic originated there because it didn’t," Hahn, who has been studying the genetic origin of HIV for years, said in a telephone interview.
"We actually know where the epidemic took off. The epidemic took off in Kinshasa, in Brazzaville." Kinshasa is in the Democratic Republic Congo, formerly Zaire, and faces Brazzaville, in Congo, across the Congo River. Studies have traced HIV to a man who gave a blood sample in 1959 in Kinshasa, then called Leopoldville. Later analysis found the AIDS viros.
In people, HIV leads to AIDS but chimps have a version called simian immune deficiency virus (SIV) that causes them no harm. Humans are the only animals naturally susceptible to HIV. AIDS was only identified 25 years ago. The virus now infects 40 million people around the world and has killed 25 million. Spread in blood, sexual contact and from mother to child during birth or breastfeeding, HIV has no cure and there is no vaccine, although drug cocktails can control it.
And like so many new infections, AIDS appears to have been passed to humans from animals they slaughtered. SIV has been found in captive chimps but Hahn wanted to show it could be found in the wild too. Her international team got the cooperation of the government in Cameroon and they hired skilled trackers.
"The chimps in that area are hunted. It’s certainly impossible to see them. It is hard to track them and find these materials," she said. But the trackers managed to collect 599 samples of droppings. Hahn’s lab found DNA, identified each individual chimp and then found evidence of the virus.
"We went to 10 field sites and we found evidence of infection in five. We were able to identify a total of 16 infected chimps and, we were able to get viral sequences from all of them," Hahn said. Up to 35 percent of the apes in some communities were infected. Not only that, they could find different varieties, called clades, of the virus.
"We found some of the clades were really, really very closely related to the human virus and others were not," she said. Chimps separated by a fiver were infected with different clades, Hahn said. And a river may have carded the virus into the human population. "So how do you get from southern Cameroon to the Democratic Republic of Congo?" Hahn asked. "Some human must have done so. There is a river that goes from that southeastern comer of Cameroon down to the Congo River."
Ivory and hardwood traders used the Sangha River in the 1930s, when the original to-human transmission is believed to have happened. Haha’s study suggests the virus passed from chimpanzees to people more than once. "We don’t really know how these transmissions occurred," Hahn said.
"We know that you don’t get it potting a chimp, or from a toilet seat, just like you can’t get HIV from a toilet seat. It requires exposure to infected blood and infected body fluids. So if you get bitten by an angry chimp while you are hunting it, which could do it."
Hahn’s study only applies the H1V group M, which is the main strain of the virus responsible for the AIDS pandemic. "It’s quite possible that still other (chimpanzee SIV) lineages exist that could pose risks for human infection and prove problematic for HIV diagnostic and vaccines," her team wrote.
According to Hahn, the H
A.Cameroon.
B.Kinshasa and Brazzaville.
C.Congo River.
D.Nile River.
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What are the steps taken by'the Department of Health of UK with the risk of the virus spreading to human population?
A.The Department of Health required Civil Contingency Secretariat to publish documents for the pandemic preparedness.
B.The Department of Health required the UK national committee to co-work with hospital trusts and local authorities.
C.The Department of Health required Civil Contingency Secretariat to make a pandemic plan as soon as possible.
D.The Department of Health requires every hospital to store Tamiflu, the precious flu vaccine.
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Potential AIDS victims who refuse to be tested for the disease and then defend their right to remain ignorant about whether they carry the virus are entitled to that right. But ignorance cannot be used to rationalize irresponsibility. Nowhere in their argument is their concern about how such ignorance might endanger public health by exposing others to the virus.
When a disease selectively attacks the socially disadvantaged, such as homosexuals and drug abusers, it seems an injustice beyond rationalization. Such is the case with acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Some crucial facts: AIDS is a communicable disease. The percentage of those infected with the AIDS virus who will eventually contract the disease is unknown, but that percentage rises with each new estimate. The disease so far has been 100 potential. The latency period between the time the virus is acquired and the disease develops is also unknown.
We now have tests for the presence of the virus that is as efficient and reliable as almost any diagnostic test in medicine. An individual who tests positive can be presumed with near-certainty to carry the virus, whether he has the disease or not.
To state that the test for AIDS is "ambiguous", as a clergyman recently in public, is a misstatement and an immoral act. The test correlates so consistently with the presence of the virus in bacteria cultures as to be considered 100 percent certain by experts.
Everyone who tests positive must understand that he is a potential person for the AIDS virus and has a moral duty and responsibility to prevent others from infection. We are not just dealing with the protection of the innocent but with an essential step lo contain the spread of an epidemic as horrible as any that has befallen modern man.
It may seem unfair to burden the tragic victims with concern for the welfare of others. But moral responsibility is not a luxury of the fortunate, and evil actions committed in despair cannot be condemned out of pity. It is morally wrong for a healthy individual who tests positive for AIDS to be involved with anyone except under the strict precautions now defined as safe sex.
It is morally wrong for someone in a high risk population who refuses to test himself to do other than to assume that he tests positive. It is morally wrong for those who, out of sympathy for the heartbreaking victims of this epidemic, as though well-wishing and platitudes about the ambiguities of the disease are necessary in order to comfort the victims while they contribute to enlarging the number of those victims. Moral responsibility is the burden of the sick as well as the healthy.
As for whether potential AIDS victims carrying the virus, the author suggests that
A.they have the right to. be kept in the dark.
B.they have the right to be protected.
C.ignorance may result in serious consequences.
D.ignorance may bring indifference to the disease.
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The virus can only be transmitted through () contact.
A.familiar
B.intimate
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Officials say that few patients _____ with the virus owing to the effective prevention.
A.infected
B.areinfected
C.haveinfecte
D.beinfected
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The hospital may have exposed the patients to the viruses, because
A.they tried to protect their delicate instruments.
B.they didn"t follow the policy accordingly.
C.they didn"t know how to follow the policy sometimes.
D.they have good intentions but the end result is bad.