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A measure of data transfer. A 56Kbps dial-up modem transfers data at about 7.2 kilobytes (KB) per second, or about 432 KB per minute.
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Kilobits Per Second - By ANICK JESDANUN AP Internet WriterNEW YORK (AP) -- A mysterious Internet virus being spread Friday byhundreds and possibly thousands of infected Web sites may be aimed atstealing credit card and other valuable information, security expertswarned.The infection appears to take advantage of three separate flaws withMicrosoft Corp. products. Microsoft said software updates to fix twoof them had been released in April, but the third flaw was newlydiscovered and had no patch to fix it yet.Experts said the infection, detected by Microsoft on Thursday, wasunusually broad but wasn't substantially interfering with Internettraffic.Security experts at Microsoft and elsewhere worked Friday to pin downhow the infection spreads across Web sites. It appears to target atleast one recent version of Microsoft software for operating Web sites-- called Internet Information Server.The infection makes subtle changes to the Web site so visitors get apiece of code that's designed to retrieve from a Russian Web sitesoftware that records a person's keystrokes and can send data back,experts say. Such software "Trojan horses" are routinely used to fishfor credit card numbers, bank accounts, passwords and the like.Now that the code is out, other hackers are likely to adapt it todistribute software for spamming and for launching broad Internetattacks against popular Web sites, said Alfred Huger, senior directorof engineering at security company Symantec Corp.- http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=42179860
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