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Watch out for computer scam – Coquitlam Now
Port Moody police are warning residents about a telephonebased computer scam that could lead to money extortion and identity fraud.
The "Ammyy scam" is believed to be based out of India and is designed to remotely access information on computers.
In this scam, someone contacts victims at home claiming to be remote care support from a reputable computer company, such as Microsoft. This person says there the computer has a virus or some other problem.
The scammer gains trust of victims by providing easily accessible information about themselves, such as their name, address or phone number.
Then the scammer tells them he or she must access their computer remotely to stop it from crashing. The scammer directs victims to the www.ammyy.com website and has them run a remote tool with provided identification.
As a result, the scammer will have complete remote access to the computer and will be able to download personal information within minutes, while also uploading viruses, malware and keystroke recorders.
In addition, the scammer tells victims they need to pay the company for the virus removal and will ask for credit card information.
According to police, the ammyy.com program has legitimate purposes when used between two trusted parties. However, it is also being used by scammers to steal information for criminal purposes.
Companies like Microsoft do not call customers to report viruses, and neither do Internet service providers. To protect yourself, police recommend never allowing a person or company to have access to your computer, or to install or run a program, unless you are 100 per cent sure who they are.
If you believe you have been called by a scammer, hang up the phone and notify your local police department. If you've allowed them to access your computer, turn it off immediately, unplug your Internet connection and take your computer to a local computer store to be checked for viruses.
Police also recommend changing your passwords and monitoring your credit card bills.
If you provided credit card information to a scammer, contact the credit card company.
As well, you can check online information about active scams.
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Hantavirus Reminder Issued After Two Deer Mice Test Positive – Patch.com
Health officials are reminding all Riverside County residents to take precautions against a potentially deadly virus that’s spread by common deer mice.
Two deer mice collected last month near the Sage area southeast of Hemet tested positive for Hantavirus, county officials announced today, and the California Department of Public Health confirmed the finding.
Between 2001 and 2010, approximately 13 percent of the deer mice collected in Riverside County tested positive for Hantavirus. This is fairly consistent with the average for California, according to today’s announcement.
To date, there are no documented human cases of Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome originating within Riverside County, the statement read.
Of the 56 human cases identified in California since 1980, 37 percent were fatal.
According to county health officials, Hantavirus may be transmitted by inhalation of tiny droplets contaminated with the virus from deer mouse secretions such as droppings and urine. Infectious deer mice do not appear to show any signs of illness so it is important to keep from stirring-up materials while cleaning up any mouse infested areas around homes, especially in rural areas. Residents can take the following steps to reduce their exposure to Hantavirus:
• Ventilate the affected area the night before cleanup by opening doors and windows.
• Use rubber gloves.
• Apply household disinfectants at maximum recommended concentrations for rodents, rodent droppings, nests, contaminated traps and surrounding area and allow at least 15 minutes contact time before removal.
• Clean the affected area with a sponge or mop. DO NOT SWEEP OR VACUUM.
• Double-bag the disinfectant-soaked rodent and clean-up materials (newspaper, paper towels, etc.) securely in plastic bags and seal.
• Before removing gloves, wash gloved hands in disinfectant, and then in soap and water. Thoroughly wash hands with soap and water after removing gloves. Dispose of gloves and clean-up materials with other household waste.
The early warning signs of human infection may include fever, headache, muscle aches, vomiting and abdominal pain. These symptoms may last a few hours to several days. As the illness progresses, the lungs fill with fluid, making breathing difficult. Respiratory failure can follow rapidly, according to county health officials.
Individuals having concerns about illness should contact their health provider.
For more information on Hantavirus and the Vector Control Program, contact the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health in Hemet at (951) 766-9454 or www.rivcoeh.org.
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Ward Melville Student One of Five Long Island Intel Finalists – Patch.com
After the earthquake in Japan last year, some members of the Three Village community showed their support by fundraising and by making paper cranes. Anna Sato decided she wanted to help, too.
The disaster led Sato to return to her work on water filtration – for which she and a classmate won accolades as regional Siemens-Westinghouse finalists in 2010 – but this time with a different spin. Whereas last year's project focused on bacteria and virus removal, she decided to tackle the filtering of radioactive isotopes from water, a realistic problem the nation of Japan faces following the damage sustained by the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
This year, her research has garnered her a coveted honor – she is one of 40 students nationwide, and one of only five on Long Island, to be named an Intel Science Talent Search finalist.
"When I saw that the earthquake and tsunami caused so much damage, I thought, 'Is there something I can do with what I have, with my science and research experience? Is there some way I can tie it in to try to help?'" Sato said in a recent interview with Patch.
Sato, 17, used stable isotopes of cesium and iodine as models for the radioactive isotopes, conducting a project called "A Novel Adsorptive Filtration Approach for the Removal of Radioactive Isotopes of Iodine and Cesium from Water." According to her test results, the new filtration membrane she developed "has superior capabilities for contaminant removal...making it especially applicable for household usage with gravity as the pressure source." It is also "cost-effective and environmentally benign."
In March, Sato will head to Washington, D.C., to present her project to a panel of scientific judges, meet with noted scientists, and compete for the top prize of $100,000.
Mentored by Stony Brook University's Ran Wang and professors Benjamin Hsiao and Benjamin Chu, Sato was also a 2011 Siemens regional semifinalist. She was a participant in the Simons Summer Research Program at Stony Brook University.
Of the 40 Intel finalists, eight of them were mentored by Stony Brook University faculty members.
"The vast opportunities provided by our faculty researchers in mentoring budding young scientists exceeds that of any university in the nation," SBU President Samuel L. Stanley Jr. said in a statement. "For Stony Brook University to account for twenty percent of the nation’s mentored students is a testament to the quality of research, education and discovery happening at Stony Brook every day."
Sato is a student in Ward Melville's InSTAR program, which has yielded over $1 million in scholarship awards to its students and more than $125,000 in grants to the school itself since the program's inception in 1998. The program produced nine Intel semifinalists in its first year, hitting a peak of 13 Intel semifinalists in 2007-08.
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Restore Missing/Hidden Icons Wiped Out by a Virus – PCWorld
Last night my sister-in-law called me, just about in tears. "Something" had happened to her laptop--probably a virus, she guessed--but everything seemed to be gone: all her desktop and Start Menu icons, and, even scarier, all her data. It was like aliens had abducted her desktop.
Not aliens: hackers. Her system had indeed been infected by a virus, and it took me a few sweeps with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (still the best recovery tool out there, IMHO) to get rid of it. (Here's a great malware-removal tutorial from PC World's Eric Geier.)
Just one problem: removing the virus hadn't restored all my sister-in-law's icons and data. The hard drive still showed nearly full, meaning nothing had actually been erased, but for all intents and purposes, the stuff was still MIA.
Fortunately, I found a utility that worked a seemingly major miracle: It brought everything back.
It's called UnHide. This free, self-contained utility is available via BleepingComputer courtesy of a user named Grinler. Just download and run the program, then be prepared to wait. On my system, it took 10-15 minutes to restore everything.
But restore everything it did: desktop icons, the Start Menu, and all the seemingly vanished data.
This was a first for me; I'd never encountered a virus that made almost the entire desktop disappear. Scary stuff!
If you find yourself in a similar situation, don't panic. I think it's the rare virus that actually does wipe out data. That said, this is probably a good time to remind you to make regular backups--not just to an external drive, but also to the cloud. Better safe than sorry!
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Microsoft says Russian anti-virus developer behind Kelihos botnet – VentureBeat
Microsoft has accused a Russian former anti-virus software developer of creating the Kelihos botnet, which sent out 3.8 billion spam messages every day in its prime.
Andrey Sabelnikov, who currently lives in St. Petersburg, Russia, was once a “software engineer and project manager at a company that provided firewall, antivirus and security software,” according to Microsoft’s amendment (PDF) to its original complaint with the U.S. district court in Virginia. Sabelnikov currently works for a software development and consulting firm as a freelancer. Microsoft alleges that software associated with the control of Kelihos identifies Sabelnikov as creator, operator, and controller of the botnet.
“Microsoft is informed and believes and thereupon alleges that Defendant wrote and/or participated in creating the harmful computer software that constitutes the Kelihos botnet,” Microsoft wrote in the amended complaint. “Defendant has used the software to control, operate, maintain and grow the Kelihos botnet, by among other things, infecting innocent users’ computers.”
Microsoft took down the Kelihos botnet in September, which had around 41,000 computers under its control. The discovery and eventual removal was done as a part of MARS (Microsoft Active Response for Security) program, created with its cyber crime unit to protect the internet as a whole. At the time, Microsoft was proud to name defendants, Alexander Piatti and 22 “John Does,” charged with owning “cz.cc” domains used to infiltrate to-be drone computers.
Sabelnikov allegedly purchased 3,723 of these “cz.cc” subdomains from Piatti and used them to operate Kelihos.
Though Kelihos is actually a botnet on the smaller side, Microsoft is pursuing the case to show domain owners there needs to be more responsibility for who is sold subdomains. The company uses the example of pawn shops in a blog post. Pawn shop owners require a name, address and other identifying pieces of information from those who wish to pawn an item. That way if something goes wrong or if the item is found to be stolen, the seller can be contacted. Domain owners, however, are not held to similar standard and are looser in who can use their subdomains.
“Currently no requirements necessitating domain hosts to know anything about the people using their subdomains,” said Richard Domingues Boscovich, a senior attorney in Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, “Making it easy for domain owners to look the other way.”
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BioLineRx Signs Exclusive License Agreement for BL-8020, an Oral Treatment for … – MarketWatch (press release)
JERUSALEM, Jan 24, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- BioLineRx /quotes/zigman/5956062/quotes/nls/blrx BLRX +5.81% (tase:BLRX), a biopharmaceutical development company, announced today it has signed a worldwide, exclusive license agreement with Genoscience, a French company focused on viral disease therapeutics, to develop and commercialize BL-8020, an orally available treatment for Hepatitis C.
BL-8020 has been developed for anti-viral therapy by Professor Philippe Halfon, Co-Founder and President of Genoscience. Prof. Halfon is a founder of several biotechnology companies and is world renowned for his work on HIV (AIDS virus), HPV (human papilloma virus causing cervical cancer) and Hepatitis.
BL-8020 acts via a unique mechanism of action, by inhibiting Hepatitis C virus (HCV)-induced autophagy, which differs from the mechanism of currently used anti-HCV agents. BL-8020's safety and efficacy were demonstrated in pre-clinical studies. These studies have shown that BL-8020, when combined with other anti-Hepatitis C virus (HCV) agents, has a synergistic effect. BL-8020's synergistic effect on other therapies is likely to increase their potency and reduce the numerous adverse effects often associated with these drugs, by enabling utilization of lower dosages. In addition BL-8020 may reduce therapy duration, which is currently up to 48 weeks. The use of two drugs acting by different mechanisms is also likely to be beneficial for patients who have developed resistance to current treatments and is an effective strategy used against other viruses such as HIV.
Dr. Kinneret Savitsky, CEO of BioLineRx, said, "We are excited about entering the field of Hepatitis C therapeutics, which is a very important field in the pharmaceutical market today. The current global Hepatitis market is estimated at approximately $6.5 billion and is growing steadily. Current therapies are characterized by numerous severe side effects, long treatment duration and development of resistance. In these respects, BL-8020 has a demonstrated safety and efficacy profile, may shorten therapy duration and may combat resistance by acting as an add-on platform which can potentially be combined with other oral Hepatitis C therapies to increase their efficacy."
"We were impressed by the drug development expertise of the BioLineRx team and are very pleased to collaborate with them for the further development of our product for the treatment of Hepatitis C," said Prof. Philippe Halfon, Co-Founder and President of Genoscience. "There is clearly a huge unmet medical need in finding a safe and effective treatment for the disease, and based on pre-clinical results, its unique mechanism of action and synergistic effect, we believe that our product, especially when combined with other available Hepatitis C drugs, has the potential to bring remedy to millions worldwide."
About Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C infection is a blood borne infection of the liver caused by the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) which becomes chronic in about 85% of cases. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 170 million people worldwide are chronically infected with HCV. In addition, HCV infection is the leading cause of liver transplantation and is a risk factor for liver cancer. The global Hepatitis market was estimated at $6.5 billion in 2010 and is forecasted to grow to $11.5 billion in 2016.
About BioLineRx
BioLineRx Ltd. is a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical development company. It is dedicated to building a portfolio of products for unmet medical needs or with advantages over currently available therapies. BioLineRx's current portfolio consists of five clinical stage candidates: BL-1020 for schizophrenia has commenced a Phase II/III study; BL-1040, for prevention of pathological cardiac remodeling following a myocardial infarction, is currently undergoing a pivotal CE-Mark registration trial and has been out-licensed to Ikaria Inc. for a total deal value of $282.5 million, in addition to sales royalties; BL-5010 for non-surgical removal of skin lesions has completed a Phase I/II study; BL-1021 for neuropathic pain is in Phase I development and BL-7040 for treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) has completed Phase I. In addition, BioLineRx has 12 products in various pre-clinical development stages for a variety of indications, including central nervous system diseases, oncology, infectious diseases, cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases.
BioLineRx's business model is based on acquiring molecules mainly from biotechnological incubators and academic institutions. The Company performs feasibility assessment studies and development through pre-clinical and clinical stages, with partial funding from the Israeli Government's Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS). The final stage includes partnering with medium and large pharmaceutical companies for advanced clinical development (Phase III) and commercialization. For more information on BioLineRx, please visit www.biolinerx.com .
The estimates and judgments with respect to BL-8020 included in this release are considered forward-looking statements, which involve certain risks and uncertainties, and are based on information available to the Company at the time of this release. Such estimates may not be realized or may be only partially realized, due to the significant uncertainty characterizing research and development activities in general, particularly those of drug development, including changes in regulation or uncertainty relating to the application of regulation, unexpected delays in obtaining regulatory approval, unexpected delays in patient recruitment for clinical trials, unexpected delays in other clinical trial preparatory activities, inefficiencies, inability to manufacture, toxicity, a high level of risk/reward in comparison. Any forward-looking statements represent the Company's views only as of the date of this release and should not be relied upon as representing its views as of any subsequent date. BioLineRx does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements unless required by law.
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Removing barriers in people’s minds will bring down walls – Irish Independent
ROBERT Frost, in his folksy way, wondered whether there was "something" out there that did not like a wall. In Belfast they love their walls, especially peace walls, to the extent, it seems of wanting them kept up forever.
Many outsiders may be surprised at the news that the International Fund for Ireland, which has such a distinguished track record in supporting imaginative strategic initiatives which will help heal the scars of conflict, should have committed £2m (€2.4m) to projects designed to lead to the removal of peace walls in Belfast.
That such an enterprise is necessary a decade and a half after the Good Friday Agreement will be disappointing to those eternal optimists who thought that peace should have broken out when the governments had ordained it to be so.
Others will be disappointed to learn that, far from crumbling or being demolished, such walls have trebled in number in the interval, and now extend to a cumulative 21 miles in Belfast alone.
Before rushing to judgment, we might ask how far this is different from the gated communities and estates which increasingly mark the more affluent areas of cities and towns. Walls built by the rich are an advertisement of power and possessions, those required to assuage the fears in poorer areas, a symbol of impotence and insecurity. Both are indications of a dysfunctional society.
In both cases, the need for a wall is based on fear and mistrust.
Called into use in the 1970s in order to protect communities from sectarian attack from the travelling gunman or invading mobs of recreational rioters, the walls have themselves become a barrier to peace-making in the wider sense, by literally cementing difference and division in a society that is trying desperately to get its act together. They inhibit movements across streets to shops and community facilities and even playgrounds, the sort of everyday activity which helps to integrate a society.
In particular, they produce, on the one hand, a siege mentality; on the other, the wall and the community behind it become the targets, something to be attacked simply for being there.
Perhaps too often peace walls were built as a political sop, as a quick-fix solution to a local problem without identifying the underlying problem, a classic case of treating the symptoms while leaving the underlying virus of sectarianism to develop its own immunity.
Some of these walls mark sites of sectarian strife which have been running sores since the early 19th century. Others resulted from population movement during the Troubles which hardened boundaries. However, once built, they became part of the furniture.
Ironically, the first peace wall in Belfast (which still exists) is a nine-foot high brick construction, sunk underground in the city cemetery at the behest of a Catholic bishop in Victorian times, presumably to ensure that the resurrection of members of his flock on the last day would not be impeded by Protestant fellow travellers or the sins of unbelievers.
It is characteristic of the more strategic approach of the International Fund that the immediate object of the current initiative is not so much the removal of brick and concrete as of barriers in people's minds.
They are funding, not bulldozers and wrecking balls but the slow, painstaking task of building networks of trusting and trustworthy individuals, and mutual confidence in separated communities that their security is better ensured by good neighbours than by the stronger and higher walls.
It is a serious reflection on political leadership that the Office of First and Deputy First Minster has been unable, yet, to publish an agreed community relations strategy which would support the valuable, if necessarily unheralded work being done on the ground by dedicated community workers and activists on both sides.
In the meantime, local initiatives need to be supported. Providentially, cutbacks in public services could promote sharing of community facilities on a cross-community basis, and the end of expensive duplication.
Falling numbers in inner city schools and threats of closures present an opportunity to educate young people together, or at least to reduce segregation.
Unless, of course, another bishop wants to build another wall.
- Maurice Hayes
Irish Independent
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