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In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age.
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When the mapping of the human genome was completed in 2003, researchers discovered a shocking fact: our bodies are littered with the shards of retroviruses, fragments...
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Computer consultant Jerry Askew poses with a digital photo frame at Askew Network Solutions in Granada Hills, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008. The frame, bought at a Target, tried to load 4 different Trojan viruses into his computer. A string of popular...