Archive for the 'virus' Category

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 [...]

Smallpox alert in Kolkata, West Bengal, India & Bangaldesh

Friday, June 1st, 2007

KOLKATA: An alert has been sounded along West Bengal’s border with Bangladesh following reports of smallpox outbreak in Rajshahi district in northern Bangladesh. The reports, however, are yet to be officially confirmed.
The administration in the districts adjoining the border have been informed and the Border Security Force asked to step up watch on [...]

OfcpfSvcs.exe – virus or worm (or a harmless system file)

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

I saw this file OfcpfSvcs.exe running in the processes tab of Windows Task manager.
Looks suspicious – I’m not going to trust any file which I can’t confirm is a system file. Especially if it’s run by the user or admin and not system.
Maybe its a malicious virus which gets into all your pen drives and [...]

Deleting Orkut testimonial

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

How to delete / remove a testimonial from Orkut Account profile
Recently (and now too) many viruses spread in Orkut.com which sent testimonials and scraps in Portuguese with links to the viruses’ website (always disgiused as a tinyurl.com or urlcut.com or my-own.net other short url) ( the extensions being rndx, muyt1, asd1 , yompks, …)
Contagion – [...]

Brontok virus – Green Background webpage with red text

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Want to remove the Brontok virus ?
It’s really nasty.
Disables regedit (registry editor).
Removes folder options (yup, it just disappears !)
Makes hidden files hidden (that’s important coz it’s hidden too)
It shuts down the computer when you’re downloading antivirus software !
How do you remove it ?
Use this software – a small antivirus.
http://www.compactbyte.com/cav/cav-0.94.exe
http://www.compactbyte.com/cav/cav-0.94-package.zip
Here is the list of viruses it [...]