Bush Wants to Ease Privacy Rules 8. Japanese Firm Offers Detection 9. SuperVision Saves Data Centers 10. If it s spring, look out for viruses. Not the kind that cause spring flu, but the kind that can destroy your computer.
Spring is peak season for high-profile computer viruses, experts say.
Some of the most destructive viruses on record have erupted in spring. Melissa, one of the fastest-spreading viruses on record, showed up in spring of 1999, using Microsoft Outlook address books to wreak havoc on personal computers and networks. Another one, called Chernobyl after the Russian nuclear town, hit more than two million computers in the spring of 1999. But that one wasn t very damaging. A new virus is the first to infect computers with either Windows or Linux operating systems.