New SARS-like virus found, says WHO

A new virus belonging to the same family as the SARS virus that killed 800 people in 2002 has been identified in Britain in a man who had recently been in Saudi Arabia, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday.

The United Nations health body, which issued a statement through its "global alert and response" system, said tests on the patient, a 49-year-old Qatari man, confirmed the presence of a new, or novel, coronavirus.

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses which includes the common cold and SARS.

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"Given that this is a novel coronavirus, WHO is currently in the process of obtaining further information to determine the public health implications," the statement said.

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Beware: DNSChanger May Shutdown Your Internet On Monday - Read how you can be protected!!

Beware all internet users !!

A malware DNSChanger is going to be unleashed on Monday and all computers which get infected will lose internet access.

The malware, a variant of notorious Ziob Trojan, when infects a computer goes into the Windows registry and changes the DNS name servers so that when you browse the internet, you are automatically re-routed to the culprit’s ad-ridden websites from which they earn money (the group of hackers made over $10 million from it).

Though the drakness looms for all net users, there is light at the end of the tunnel as there are ways to detect and remove this malware.

You are suggested to go to McAfee’s DNSChanger Detection And Removal Tool. If it detects the presence of DNSChanger, it will help you remove any changes the malware made when it installed itself on your computer.

Please share this post with your friends and family so that they do not lose internet access this Monday.

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Mac Trojan Attack: Apple Issues Fix To Stop The Spread

If you thought your Mac was safe from harmful computer viruses, think again.

Ars Technica reported on April 4 that the "Mac Flashback trojan" has returned with a vengeance in recent weeks, now affecting hundreds of thousands of Apple laptops.

Ars first reported about the issue on April 2, explaining that anti-virus and computer security firm F-Secure had spotted the virus in action.

Later, on April 4, the site pointed out that it was Russian IT-security solutions vendor Dr. Web that revealed how widespread the problem has become in a post published on the Dr. Web blog earlier on the same day.

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Hong Kong orders chicken cull as bird flu alert raised

[ via BBC News / Business ] 21 Dec

Hong Kong is culling 17,000 chickens after three birds were confirmed to have died from the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain in the past week.

The government has banned imports and the sale of live chickens for three weeks after a chicken carcass was found at a wholesale market on Tuesday.

Two wild birds were also found to have died of the the virus. The government said it was tracing the source of the chicken carcass, but it was not clear whether the chicken came from a local farm or was imported.

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Man-made mutant flu virus that can kill half the planet if released

[ via news ] 20 Dec

TWO scientific journals are debating whether to publish details of a man-made mutant flu virus that many fear could kill half the planet if it is released.

The report says that the US government paid scientists to figure out how the deadly bird flu virus could mutate to become a bigger threat to humans, then demanded virologists researching their work don't release full details of their success.

The H5N1 strain of bird flu is fatal in 60 per cent of human cases but only 350 people have so far died from the disease, largely because it cannot - yet - be transmitted between humans.

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Beware !! Black Friday iTunes infected

Full Story: BBC News / Technology 24 Nov

Beware !! Black Friday iTunes infected credit malware may harm your computer

If you receive an email that claims to be from Apple's iTunes store - be warned that the ZIP file attached contains malware that may allow hackers to gain access to the recipient's computer.

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