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What Really Happened: Computer viruses make it to orbit

By mememan - Posted on August 27th, 2008

Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG.
The worm was first detected on Earth in August 2007 and lurks on infected machines waiting to steal login names for popular online games.
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