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“This Week’s Top 10 Spyware Threats”
The top ten most prevalent spyware and malware threats for the month of April are compiled from monthly scans performed by Sunbelt’s award-winning antispyware tool, CounterSpy(tm), and is a service of the Sunbelt Software Malware Research Labs. New threats that appear for the first time in the top ten lists include the Trojan.Vxgame and Blaire threats. Trojan.Vxgame is a severe threat — a Trojan program that silently downloads additional malware from the Internet and lowers a user’s system security settings by disabling the Windows firewall. Blaire is also a high risk threat — a worm distributed through mass emails. Once executed on a user’s computer, it functions as a backdoor, opens illicit network connections, and uses polymorphic tactics to self-mutate, disable security software, modify system files, and install additional malware. The results represent the number of times a particular spyware or malware infection was detected during CounterSpy scans that report to ThreatNet(tm), Sunbelt’s community of opt-in users of CounterSpy.
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Stop Canadian Bill C-51
‘(NaturalNews) Bill C-51 is a new law being pushed in Canada by Big Pharma seeks to outlaw up to 60 percent of natural health products currently sold in Canada, even while criminalizing parents who give herbs or supplements to their children. The law, known as C-51, was introduced by the Canadian Minister of Health on April 8th, 2008, and it proposes sweeping changes to Canada’s Food and Drugs Act that could have devastating consequences on the health products industry.
Among the changes proposed by the bill are radical alterations to key terminology, including replacing the word "drug" with "therapeutic product" throughout the Act, thereby giving the Canadian government broad-reaching powers to regulate the sale of all herbs, vitamins, supplements and other items. With this single language change, anything that is "therapeutic" automatically falls under the Food and Drug Act. This would include bottled water, blueberries, dandelion greens and essentially all plant-derived substances.
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