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Questions

1. A simple one to begin with... Why is August 12, 1981, important?

2. Name the new blogging software (beta version) released by Microsoft recently.

3. For which year did `Time' magazine name the PC "Person of the Year"?

4. Where is Google's European/Middle Eastern/African headquarters?

5. What are `metamorphic

viruses'?

6. LAME is considered in the cyber community to be a recursive acronym for... ?

7. What is common to Vapor, Liberty, Phage and PEMagic?

8. Name the IM developer taken over by AOL recently.

9. One for the Trekkies. Name the Star Trek computer video game scheduled for an October release.

10. Who gave us the free email encryption software `Pretty Good Privacy'?

Answers

1. On that day, IBM launched its first PC, the IBM 5150.

2. Windows Live Writer

3. 1982

4. Dublin (Ireland)

5. Viruses that rewrite themselves completely every time they try to infect new executables in order to avoid being detected by emulation.

6. LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder.

7. The four known viruses in the wild for the Palm OS.

8. Userplane

9. Star Trek: Legacy

10. Phil Zimmermann

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