Pawur, Tasin, Paula, Inzae, Anzae, ...

The same worm under different names. I'm pretty sure non-Spanish readers never heard of it, but this worm is spreading wildly in Spanish spoken countries. This worm in particular deletes all office docs, mp3, image files, source code files such as vbs, c or cpp, ... and resends itself using a built-in smtp server that sends the worm to the infected user's contact list.

You might be wondering why do I talk about it when each day different worms and viruses appear. Some computer users don't care if they are infected or not until the computer crashes and then they only try to recover their files and format the hard disk. The problem comes when these users see their documents deleted or their music folders empty, then they call someone to see if they can recover those files.

Well, I've been messing around with 30 infected computers since past wednesday and as none of the removal tools worked as I wanted and I'm tired of searching the keys in the registry and worm files to manually delete them, I have written a tiny script that locates and deletes the files Pawur creates and deletes them as well as the registry values it adds to the registry.

Download the Pawur removal tool here.

Note: It currently works with the four known versions of the worm (A/D).
The script will only work in WinNT4, Win2K or WinXp machines, you will need the external tool reg.exe from a Windows Reskit te get it run in a Win9x/Me box.
Although the script shouldn't compromise your system in any way I am not responsible of any harm your computer/software could suffer.
Source available on request.

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Maybe they played too many videogames
Things that happen when you give weapons to a bunch of inmature guys.
Play video (2.5Mb WMV file)
Via: Drunken Delight

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Applause for the British

It seems that a coalition of organizations and governments leaded by the UK government will pre-buy millions of the malaria vaccine the Spanish researcher Pedro Alonso is evaluating for GSK ensuring with it it's distribution in third world countries that suffer this disease.

The government would offer to buy enough malaria vaccine to immunize 873 million people for HIV/AIDS, 642 million people for malaria, and 1,534 million people for tuberculosis in covered countries over ten years. The commitment would be backed by a legally binding contract. In the base case scenario, 2643 million DALYs would be saved for HIV/AIDS, 1,114 million DALYs would be saved for malaria, and 983 million DALYs would be saved for tuberculosis. (This is equivalent to 89 million lives for HIV/AIDS, 37 million for malaria, and 33 million lives for tuberculosis.)

This is by far a better way of erradicating malaria than previous campaigns.

Full report
@ - Translated by Google

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Ironies of life


This photograph taken through a police bus window shows an African woman that came to Spain in a small boat with another 37 people (six pregnant women and three babies) and was arrested before disembarking.

Background: Each day dozens of immigrants try to arrive to the coast of Spain in small and overcrowded ships that most of the times are intercepted by the Police or, unfortunately, wreck down a few miles from the coast.

For all you non-Spanish readers that don't get the irony in this picture, "salida de socorro" means "emergency exit" and that trip to the Police Station will probably be the beginning of a new life in Europe for that woman as most of south/central African countries illegal immigrants cannot be sent back to their homeland as they come here with no passport or their countries don't accept them back. So this woman has escaped her old life using the emergency exit. The new life as illegal immigrant won't be easy, at least at first, but it is a new oportunity for her at least.

Good luck!

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Fifteen years ago...

Although the Wall is only a bunch of souvenirs spreaded through the World and a few meters long memorial, in November' 89 Germans broke the wall that not only divided Berlin but the whole Europe. It was the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Iron Curtain.

If nobody discuss that Germany is better unite, why do people still believe that a Wall can do some good in other countries?

APTN clipreel of the Fall
Altavista's video search for Berlin Wall.
Short video explaining the falling

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Something's wrong when a hospital becomes a military target
I have tried hard to keep uninformed all this week, I took special care to read/watch/hear as few international news as I could. I thought that keeping myself ignorant of the World's happenings would clean my mind making it easy to understand why so many people support two things I cannot understand:
- Bush reelection
-The invasion of Iraq

I think I'm almost in understanding (note that I said understand and not share) why 59054087 USA Americans gave GWB a new opportunity to fix the mess he has involved the USA in. Fear and a 'someone to believe in' feelings have given him more votes than his own campaign ads.

I haven't found the slightest reason to support what 'the coalition' troops are doing in Iraq. I was beginning to think that those voters don't support the war but they don't really care about it (watching only TV series and sports can easily make you feel nothing about everything) but when I opened the afternoon's newspaper today and read that the first military action USA Army took today in Fallujah's raid was invading town's hospital. It inmediately reminded me some actions taken in Chechnya by terrorists against hospitals or the Israeli attacks against ambulances. I remember the USA already bombed at least another two hospitals in the Gulf war and in Afghanistan, in both cases the USA Army either denied it or said it was an error.

The fact that the USA admitted the invasion of the town's hospital as the first stage to the raid proves that the USA no longer respects the rules of war. Will massive and indiscriminate WWII style bombings be the next? Oh, wait. They are already doing it.

Read full story: MSNBC - Thousands of U.S. troops enter Fallujah

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