A SCAM is sullying the hunt for alien intelligence. Someone is using a
computer virus to cheat in the SETI@home project, in which home PCs crunch data
from radio telescopes to look for signs of alien life.
With the SETI@home program installed, your PC sifts through a block of data
and returns the results to a processing centre. More than 3 million people have
signed up, and anyone who processes a lot of data may see their name posted on
the SETI@home Web page as “Cruncher of the Week”.
Now someone has written a virus that allows…
