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Cheat Sheet: Supercomputing

Cheat Sheet No, the main difference between these different pieces of hardware is a supercomputer channels all its power into executing a few programs as fast as possible, whereas a mainframe executes many programs concurrently and a botnet uses its power to...

Tags: supercomputing, blue gene, petaflop, ibm

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[20 Nov 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Virus names and alerts

Cheat Sheet OK, well I know what computer viruses are so this should be straightforward - the name is just how they are distinguished from one another and the warning is an indication of how problematic things are at a given time?

Tags: alert, virus, cheat sheet, netsky

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[08 Nov 2004]

Cheat Sheet: Microsoft's virus bounty

Cheat Sheet The announcement of these rewards followed the outbreaks of the MSBlast and Sobig viruses in 2003 which both targeted flaws in Microsoft's Windows operating system (there are still rewards on offer for information leading to the arrest of the...

Tags: sobig, virus, bounty, sasser

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[10 May 2004]

Cheat Sheet: Computer viruses

Cheat Sheet It's also possible for HTML documents containing JavaScript or other types of code to spread viruses. Viruses are software programs and they can do the same things as any other programs. What kind of files spread viruses?

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[26 Mar 2002]