ISS Catches Worm
A computer virus intrusion aboard the ISS in july has prompted astronauts to updated their anti virus software on all the laptop computers aboard the station.
Kelly Humphries NASA representative for the Johnson space center in Houston said
Oleg Kononenko, a Russian cosmonaut, was busy updating the anti-virus protection software on the russian side of the International space station.
The process is really very much like the one folks on earth are familiar with, however the software itself is proprietary.
The relatively low risk virus, W32.Gammima.AG which is a worm and was designed to seek out passwords for online computer games, was first discovered aboard the station on July 25 after being detected by the station’s anti-virus screening software. Critical computer systems used for navigation, communication and life support were not infected, NASA technical staff were however very interested to find out exactly how the computer virus got to the station.
There are apparently more than 50 computers among all the ISS modules that is used within the space crafts network
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