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Computer Virus Hits ISS, Should NASA Worry?

August 28, 2008

It was confirmed yesterday by NASA that they have discovered a computer virus on a laptop that is aboard the International Space Station (ISS).  The big question that has come out of this though, is should NASA worry?...........Washington (dbTechno) - It was confirmed yesterday by NASA that they have discovered a computer virus on a laptop that is aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The big question that has come out of this though, is should NASA worry?

The virus was first discovered by Symantec back on August 27, 2008, with the virus being called W32.Gammima.AG.

It impacts systems running Windows 2000, 95, 98, Me, NT, XP, and Windows Server 2003.

At this point though, it does not seem that there is much of a threat to NASA directly from the virus.

The report states that the virus is very easy to contain and remove, and can cause minimal damage.

The best thing the virus can do is steal passwords, but it is not believed that the worm virus could do any damage to NASA at this.

NASA is seeing it as more of a pain than a major threat, and for good reason.

Many continue to question though how a virus managed to get on the International Space Station in the first place. Don’t they have virus scanning software?

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