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Anthrax Fears Push Bill Payers Online

News Mail safety concerns raised by recent anthrax scares have prompted a 20 percent increase in the number of Americans viewing and paying bills electronically, according to analyst firm Gartner Group. There were already a lot of efforts in the e...

[November 6, 2001, 16:36]

Anthrax Panic Bumps Up Web Traffic

News People flocked to government Web sites last week for reliable information on anthrax after a string of related terrorist threats to news operations and government officials, according to a survey released on Friday.

[October 22, 2001, 10:00]

Home PCs Fight Bugs In Anthrax Quest

News New anthrax-fighting drugs are to be developed on home and office PCs, according to Oxford University, Intel, Microsoft and United Devices. Molecular testing works by checking billions of potential compounds to see which ones will bind to certain...

[January 22, 2002, 17:41]

New 'anthrax' Email Worm Is A Dud

News A new computer worm that attempts to ride on the coattails of the anthrax scare emerged Tuesday, but numerous errors on the part of the program's author seem to have scuttled any chance the worm has to spread.

[October 17, 2001, 9:57]

Email Answer To Anthrax Risk

News Use of email could skyrocket as an ever-widening anthrax investigation turns "snail mail" into a suspicious and potentially lethal form of communication. Tom Daschle, the Senate majority leader, tested positive for anthrax.

[October 17, 2001, 8:53]

An Outbreak Of Anthrax On The Internet? ANTRAXINFO.VBS Or ANTRAX.JPG.VBS (Kaspersky)

White Papers Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software developer, reports that two new Internet worms are making the rounds, trying to spread under the guise of important information about the anthrax virus.

[April 28, 2004, 0:00]

UK Web Site Accused Over Anthrax Drug Sales

News The letter warned the suspect vendors against marketing illicit batches of ciprofloxacin -- an antibiotic used to treat anthrax -- and is threatening to take action against suppliers who continue to sell their products to US citizens.

[November 5, 2001, 17:29]

Multiplex Detection Of Anthrax, Plague, Smallpox & Tularemia

White Papers This webcast talks about established nucleic acid and anti-body based technologies have characteristics that pose operational limitations. Consequently, the Department of Homeland Security has cited the need for enhanced pathogen detection...

[February 18, 2005, 23:00]

Responding To The Threat Of Smallpox Bioterrorism: An Ounce Of Prevention Is Best Approach

White Papers And the subsequent anthrax cases point to the possibility of a future bioterrorist attack, possibly using the deadly smallpox virus. Judging from the September 11 attacks, the threat of direct terrorist attack against the United States is real.

[January 24, 2005, 23:00]

Spammers Busted In Net Fraud Crackdown

News The agency said the sweeps have netted 63 official actions in the past six months, targeting people allegedly engaged in a variety of schemes, involving anything from anti-anthrax drug Cipro to work-from-home offers.

[April 3, 2002, 10:01]

Spam Vigilante Faces Jail

News The California resident said that his computer had been practically disabled for months because of the spam, leading him to make threats including sending anthrax to the firm and castrating or torturing employees with an ice pick and a power drill.

[November 24, 2003, 16:25]

Scientists Develop 3D Nanomaterial

News The application would be similar to the nanowire bar-code system for detecting anthrax. University of Arkansas chemists announced on Tuesday that they have made nanomaterials accessible as three-dimensional forms by making paper out of titanium...

[August 23, 2006, 9:20]

Linux Out-Googles Microsoft

News Other search terms that experienced the most rapid decline in popularity were World Trade Center at number three, then Anthrax, Osama Bin Laden and Taliban. Spider-Man was the fastest climber among search terms on Google in 2002, according to...

[December 16, 2002, 11:59]

Google Keeps Up Porn Probe Battle

Talkback Even better lets short out the email monitors by everyone sending an email with all the buzzwords they can think of such as suicide bomber, Al Qaeda, George Bush, ricin, anthrax, nuclear attack.truck bombs, jihad, Allah,

[February 20, 2006, 13:44]

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Blog Call me old-fashioned, but after a few years of being warned about dirty bombs, anthrax, thermonuclear devices in beefburgers or whatever it seems to me that the preferred terrorist modus operandi involves a hunk of high explosives.

[January 14, 2005, 12:30]

Crashing Out At Glastonbury Festival

Talkback Or if you have your own paint-balling gun, bring it (then ball hurt), anthrax or/and small-pox is not allowed in the zone. 'Survival of the Fittest – Death Match’. You get all people who want to come (2 Million as an estimate) to one huge place.

[April 6, 2004, 13:21]