Archive for June, 2007

A doctor’s approach to a USB drive viral infection

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Symptoms :
* All hard drive partitions ( C: , D: , E: , …) have an autoplay
* Internet Explorer homepage set to some Thai site . Internet Explorer shows “Hacked by Moozilla” (sic)
on the title bar
* USB drives, and cameras and memory cards and portable hard drives and USB mp3 players and everything
USB shows [...]

Loch Ness monster new video – Nessie monstor is back

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

The Loch Ness Monster is a cryptid, claimed to inhabit Scotland’s Loch Ness, the most voluminous freshwater lake in Great Britain. The creature’s “scientific” name, chosen by the late Sir Peter Scott in Nature, is Nessiteras rhombopteryx (Greek for “the wonder of Ness with the diamond shaped fin”). Anagram lovers soon followed this with [...]

Smallpox as a bioterrorism agent ? Smallpox rears its ugly head in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Small pox is back !!! Kolkata ( formerly Calcutta – home of the Bengali babus), West Bengal, India. And Bangladesh. In the Indian subcontinent.
Although naturally occurring smallpox has been eradicated( not quite true – see above), there is still heightened concern that the variola virus might be used as an agent of [...]

Small pox – not eradicated ? – some things you should know about smallpox

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Questions about smallpox
 Small pox is back !!! Kolkata ( formerly Calcutta – home of the Bengali babus), West Bengal, India. And Bangladesh. In the Indian subcontinent.
What should I know about smallpox?
Smallpox is an acute, contagious, and sometimes fatal disease caused by the variola virus (an orthopoxvirus), and marked by fever and a distinctive progressive skin [...]

What is smallpox ? Details about small pox viral disease – thought to be eradicated

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a highly contagious disease unique to humans.Smallpox is caused by either of two virus variants named Variola major and Variola minor. The deadlier form, V. major, has a mortality rate of 3–35%, while V. minor causes a milder form of disease called alastrim [...]