Researchers See Threats in ‘Typhoid’ Adware

Author: Donald Sears

May 25, 2010 4:53 pm

There’s a potential threat lurking in your internet café, say University
of Calgary computer science researchers. It’s called Typhoid adware and
works in similar fashion to Typhoid Mary, the first identified healthy
carrier of typhoid fever who spread the disease to dozens of people in
the New York area in the early 1900s. Read the full article. [Science Daily]

There’s a potential threat lurking in your internet café, say University
of Calgary computer science researchers. It’s called Typhoid adware and
works in similar fashion to Typhoid Mary, the first identified healthy
carrier of typhoid fever who spread the disease to dozens of people in
the New York area in the early 1900s. Read the full article. [Science Daily]

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