Moles, not magic, make worm 'grunting' work

Gary Revell gets up every morning before sunrise, heads into the woods and grunts. Not because it's so early. It's the term for coaxing worms from the ground by the hundreds to be scooped up and plopped in a tin can until he can sell them for fishing bait.

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Horrifying parasitic illness reaches all-time low

Cases of Guinea worm disease — a horrifying infection that culminates in worms coming out of a victim's skin — have reached an all-time low worldwide, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced Friday.

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Instant messaging worm builds menacing 'botnet'

A computer worm that spreads via instant messaging is being used to build an extensive "botnet" of remote-controlled PCs, a US security firm has warned.

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Group Says Giant Worm Must Be Protected

It's 3 feet long, pinkish in color, smells like a lily and must be saved from extinction, conservationists said Thursday in asking the federal government to protect the Giant Palouse Earthworm under the Endangered Species Act.

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Experts: 'Hype' May Have Mitigated Worm

Companies and individuals heeded this week's warning — some may call it "hype" — about a file-destroying computer worm known as "Kama Sutra," helping minimize its damage Friday, security experts said.

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File-Destroying Worm Causes Little Damage

One Italian city's government shut down its computers as a precaution but a file-destroying computer worm otherwise caused relatively little damage when it triggered worldwide Friday.

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Researchers Warn of File-Destroying Worm

If you have computer files you'd rather not lose, now is a good time to make sure your anti-virus software is up to date. A worm set to activate Friday will corrupt documents using the most common file types, including ".doc," ".pdf," and ".zip."

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A second worm to hit the iPhone has been unearthed by security company F-Secure. It is specifically targetting people in the Netherlands who are using their iPhones for internet banking with Dutch online bank ING Direct.

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A new amphibian species can survive on land with no nostrils, lungs, or legs, say researchers who discovered the bizarre beast.

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The first worm to infect the Apple iPhone has been discovered spreading "in the wild" in Australia. The self-propagating program changes the phone's wallpaper to a picture of 80s singer Rick Astley with the message "ikee is never going to give you up".

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"Promote global worming." What other bumper sticker would Casey Barrett have on the back of his pickup truck? Director of operations at the Fifth Street Public Market in Eugene, Barrett is wiggling his way through a new venture at the market: vermicomposting.

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A metro man said he unwrapped an unwelcome surprise in a candy bar and it made his stomach turn.Reginald Ganther said he was working late producing Christian music and wanted a sweet snack, so he took a bite of a Hershey's almond candy bar.

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"In the good­ old days (i.e., the early 1980s), viruses depended on humans to do the hard work of spreading the virus to other computers. A hacker would save the virus to disks and then distribute the disks to other people.

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ARMED with explosives, two men are heading to Mongolia's Gobi Desert to find the fabled acid-spitting and lightning-throwing Mongolian death worm. The worm has never been documented but some Mongolians are convinced it exists.

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Among connoisseurs of insect stings, it's the equivalent of Robert Parker's wine ratings. Schmidt has been stung by about 150 different species on six continents and seems to have opinions about all of them.

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Scientists are constantly finding new creatures and/or species. I hope this one pans out because "Tremors" is one of my favorite movies.

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This article discuses and speculates about the Conficker worm.

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Be cautious about sites that ask you to install a missing video plug-in...

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Why I Hope Computers Don't Completely Replace Words on Paper (or Other "Hard Copies")

I love the enormous ease of access to information through the Internet and other sources provided by computer technology. I do not desire to go back to the days before computers.

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In the germline cells that produce eggs or sperm, biological time stands still. This is why babies are all born with the same age, the clock set to zero, regardless of the age of their parents.

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A Vietnamese security company has detected what it believes is a new worm that thwarts Google's security protections in order to register new dummy Gmail accounts from which to send spam.

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Nearly one month after the April Fools announcement about the Conficker worm, Zittrain is interviewed by CBS about the Internet being in trouble. The Conficker is no longer just a worm, it is a botnet.

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60 Minutes story on the Conficker says that millions of computers are infected.

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The perpetual proliferation of botnets is hardly surprising when one considers just how easy it is for the bad guys to hijack computers without tipping off the users.

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The teenager who takes credit for the worms that hit Twitter earlier this week has been hired by a Web application development firm and on Friday released a fifth worm on the microblogging site, he said.

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A bad week for Twitter just got even worse. The service has apparently been infected by a worm originating from the owners of the website StalkDaily (Note: Do not visit this website, as it may cause your computer to become infected).

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Members of an informal global alliance of computer security specialists who have been trying to eradicate a malicious software program known as Conficker said Tuesday that they were seeing early attempts by the program to communicate with a control server.

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Last week, I pulled out my Internet cable, unplugged my USB drives, and searched my Windows machine for Conficker, the astounding computer worm that threatens to wreak global havoc once its latest version begins to phone home for further instructions on April 1.

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A GOVERNMENT information security watchdog has issued a warning for people to take precautions against a fast-mutating malicious computer program, which is poised to strike on Wednesday.

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"A computer-science detective story is playing out on the Internet as security experts try to hunt down a worm called Conficker C and prevent it from damaging millions of computers on April Fool's Day."

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Computer experts around the world continue efforts to stop the "malicious software program called Conficker." The infected computers are programmed to take some action on April 1.

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