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This Year Wackiest Thing To Do! Some Scientists Created Avian Flu Which Could Spread From Mammal To Mammal!

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This year wackiest thing to do!  According to Arstechnica‘s article “US Government tries to restrict publication of details on avian flu virus that spreads among mammals,” some scientists under the authority of whichever government had created a strain of dangerous virus, Avian flu, which could be spread through air from mammal to mammal.  As from what I had read and understood, it seemed that these scientists wanted to be more prepare in combatting against a futuristic pandemic flu (i.e., might kill billions of people) by creating something like it in the first place so they would be able to learn how such a killer virus would happen in nature.  United States government specifically thinks it’s too dangerous to release such information into the public in fearing someone out there would intend to terrorize the world by putting such knowledge into practice.  I have to say duh!  Duh as in why creating something this dangerous and releasing the knowledge of its existence to the world?

Now, I’m fearing that some bad guys will try to gain the knowhow of creating something similar to Avian flu at all costs.  Perhaps, they just need enough information to reverse engineer such knowledge and might come up with something much worse?  After all, now these bad guys know it’s achievable in creating something this dangerous.  The whole mess so reminds me of a documentary, Apocalypse How, directed by Ted Poole.  Apocalypse How warns us that humankind might destroy itself or at least might kill billions of people by having create a dangerous virus in a lab somewhere which could spread to billions of people so fast that there would be little time to come up with a vacine to stop it.  Apparently, Apocalypse How isn’t too farfetched on its prophetic warning, and this only fuels the belief of 2012 and have more people scare.  Of course, documentary Apocalypse How isn’t mentioning such virus would occur in 2012, but I’m just saying…  This knowledge gotta be locked away forever from the bad guys!  Let hope it will be so!  Also, let hope the bad guys aren’t smart enough to come up with their own version!  I so do wish that these scientists also know how to create a cure for their dangerous mammal spreading strain of Avian flu.

{Which humankind ultimate weapon is wackier, nuclear or a pandemic virus?}

Source:  http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/12/us-government-tries-to-restrict-publication-of-details-on-avian-flu-virus-that-spreads-among-mammals.ars?comments=1#comments-bar

Using VirusTotal To Inspect A Computer File Or Software Is Like Checking For Virus Using Multiple Antivirus Software At One Time

Have you ever had doubts about certain files of yours even though you know your premium antivirus software had already inspected such files?  You’re not alone, because many people are having the same problem.  Some of these many people use VirusTotal.com to check individual files against forty plus available antivirus software.  This assures computer users that they have thoroughly inspected such files against that many more antivirus software.

No doubt sometimes reputable antivirus software may give false positive results, and by this I mean when antivirus software red-flag certain files as malware or containing virus but everything turns out to be fine; nonetheless, most of the time many antivirus software are on the same page when it comes down to which software and strange file are bad for your computers.  Using VirusTotal may red-flag your valid software unnecessarily, but to be safe than sorry, VirusTotal may very well let you know thoroughly about the scary files you have on your computers.

The downsides of using VirusTotal are many.  You cannot depend on VirusTotal.com to be your one and only antivirus software, because the site itself only allows you to upload one file at a time for inspection, if I’m correct on this.  It has no real time protection to peruse your computer files in real time to make sure you can get rid computer viruses and worms from the get-go.

Basically, the approach of using VirusTotal to check for dangerous files and software is very rudimentary, because VirusTotal is only capable of helping you to reaffirm your doubts about certain computer files and software.  If you ask me, I’ll say you need a premium antivirus software such as Norton or a free antivirus software such as Microsoft Security Essentials to be your true antivirus software, and then only use VirusTotal to double check on certain strange files.  For your information, it’s free to use VirusTotal!

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