game on space stations ?

[Federico Voges]

Tony Alfrey wrote:
> vu pham wrote:
>>
>> I don't believe it. They run Windows on space stations.
>>
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13554_3-10027754-33.html
>>
>> It is space stations, not game stations !!!
>> I hope they only use Windows for games there.
> 
> It's not clear from the article that they actually do;  it may have been 
> on a personal PC carried by a crew member.  But the article and the 
> general thread about disabling autorun was a good article.  I'm more 
> paranoid about such stuff recently because I've been running XP on 
> VirtualBox to use some windows-only apps that I need.  But I suppose the 
> worst that can happen is that badness contaminates the external drive 
> carrying the guest OS, and then I throw it out  ;-)
> 

Apparently it was a keylogger that targets world of warcraft (and 
similar games) user accounts. A bit more info here (although not that much):

http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/08/27/international-space-station-has-a-keylogger/

Cheers,
Federico.