New virus invitation olympic

But, with less than a month to go until the Winter Olympics in the capital, a series of small outbreaks across the country has put the strategy under pressure. Although the number of reported cases in China is very low compared with other nations, infections in recent weeks have reached a high not seen in the country since March China recorded 91 cases Wednesday — including 35 in Xi'an, the city's lowest tally since mid-December. The Zhengzhou outbreak is tiny by comparison, but officials are taking no chances.

State media said about close contacts had been traced from the outbreak's two symptomatic cases, linked through mahjong rooms and family gatherings. On Monday, one million people in Yuzhou city — in the same province as Zhengzhou — were put under stay-at-home orders after just three asymptomatic cases were confirmed there. It is the worst virus announced by CNN.

A new virus has been discovered recently that has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever. It is a Trojan Horse that asks you to install an adobe flash plug-in.

And there is no repair yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the vital information of their function is saved. You can ensure that the settings for your email client don't run attachments or inline scripts without asking, or require it to read incoming mail as text rather than HTML.

Well, CNN undoubtedly knows more about viruses than I do. There was a time when I'd have said "ask yourself whether Microsoft is the best authority on viruses" too, but of course Microsoft is a serious player in malware analysis nowadays, with its own security software.

However, the point here is that the message isn't giving us any proof that CNN or Microsoft have said anything whatsoever about this "virus". Let alone when they're supposed to have said it. It's another standard hoax technique, invoking an "authoritative" source without giving you enough information to check it. If it's a trojan, it's questionable whether it's a virus, but let's not be picky. Lots of Trojans do, in fact, try to trick you into installing some software claimed to be a Flash component, a video codec or whatever, so that's a good heuristic for spotting suspicious messages.

In fact, snopes. Of course, lots of sites including security companies have also described Koobface with varying levels of detail, but this is particularly relevant because as we'll see below, the hoaxer here has probably looked specifically at the snopes. We're back off the rails. Remember what I said about the hook and the threat? Slightly garbled, but yes, overwriting the first sector of a hard disk is a pretty good way of rendering the disk unreadable, though that doesn't always mean the disk can't be recovered.

No, it doesn't. That particular article is also about Koobface. In fact, what the article says is summarized as:. Messages appearing to come from Facebook friends and directing recipients to view YouTube videos harbor a virus. In the abstract, this is correct. Unfortunately, the article goes on to quote several email messages that describe this single aspect of Koobface distribution there have been many other social engineering hooks very specifically. For example:.