EMAIL VIRUS ALERT : h1n1 info from CDC

Heads up to I.T. guys and computer people. New Virus. « on: December 02, 2009, 10:36:53 AM »

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(one of our IT Vendors) just sent me a courtesy email saying they are getting blitzed with calls from their customers today who have been infected with a virus. Apparently the virus spreads via an official looking email from the Centers for Disease Control with information about the H1N1 virus, and is causing a lot of trouble today for many businesses.


Just a heads up. This appears to be a real virus not a socially engineered spam courtesy spreader.


Thank you.

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http://blog.fortinet.com/malware-seeding-campaign-leveraging-vaccination-profiles-for-the-h1n1-virus/

AV Lab’s honeypots have just started catching new malware seeding campaigns leveraging vaccination profiles for the H1N1 virus.

The message is sent as a notification from the “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)”. Because the sender’s email is spoofed and because the URL leading to the rogue website contains a “gov” subdomain, which can be mistaken for the top-level domain, the message may seem plausible to many people.

Here is what the email looks like:

From: "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)"
Sent: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:37:46 +0800
To: [removed]@fortinet.com
Subject: Creation of your personal Vaccination Profile

You have received this e-mail because of the launching of State Vaccination H1N1 Program.

You need to create your personal H1N1 (swine flu) Vaccination Profile on the cdc.gov website.
The Vaccination is not obligatory, but every person that has reached the age of 18 has to have
his personal Vaccination Profile on the cdc.gov site. This profile has to be created both for
the vaccinated people and the not-vaccinated ones. This profile is used for the registering system
of vaccinated and not-vaccinated people.

Create your Personal H1N1 Vaccination Profile using the link:

Create Personal Profile (link to http://online.cdc.gov.yhnbad.[removed])And here is a screenshot of the rogue site:



Of course, the “Archive” (see “Download Archive” link) is in fact a Trojan horse.

Pay attention to those ever-going social-engineering attempts leveraging news items. Of course, this one is easily defeated by the fact the “vaccination profile” is an executable file, which is unlikely for an archive (although possible), especially sent by an official organization.

But when the malicious bits are embedded in actual documents (.pdf, .doc, .xls, etc.), it can sometimes be challenging to separate the wheat from the chaff…


Fortinet detects the downloaded file as W32/Vacc.A!tr

Can we trust the CDC? Asks Doctor in Regard to H1N1 Flu Figures

Can we trust the CDC? Asks Doctor in Regard to H1N1 Flu Figures « on: November 16, 2009, 08:46:11 PM »

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Just in case anyone missed this one. It concludes: "I fear this organization that was once scrupulously devoted to science and working only for the best interest of the American people has been corrupted by politics and now serves as a propaganda arm of the entrenched bureaucracy."

Can we trust the CDC?
http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/11/who-does-the-cdc-work-for/
By Dr. Theo on November 14th, 2009
In a press conference this week representatives of the Centers for Disease Control revealed estimates of the extent of the H1N1 Influenza pandemic that increased by several orders of magnitude from previous estimates. For instance the number of pediatric cases reported by the CDC on November 6th was 129, but on November 12th, the date of this news conference, it was reported to be 540! Other surprising numbers revealed included the following:

• CDC estimates that between 14 million and 34 million cases of 2009 H1N1 occurred between April and October 17, 2009.
• CDC estimates that between about 63,000 and 153,000 2009 H1N1-related hospitalizations occurred between April and October 17, 2009.
• CDC estimates that between about 2,500 and 6,000 2009 H1N1-related deaths occurred between April and October 17, 2009.

I currently help staff an urgent care facility that sees nearly 100 patients per day. We have seen very large numbers of people with complaints that could be due to influenza, yet have documented only about five to ten per week and that only began about the first of October. We have hospitalized no patients and our parent hospital that serves a population of about 150,000 has reported one death due to H1N1 and that was in a child with severe underlying immunological disease.

I know that anecdotal reports are not always representative of a situation, but still the new CDC estimates seemed so far off from what many of us front-line docs are actually seeing that I had to investigate this further.

I read the entire transcript of the news conference as well as the accompanying press release to try to get a better idea of what the CDC is now reporting. Amongst a lot of uncipherable medico-babble (e.g., “Emerging infection programming network is one key source for our estimate. We also are using data from other symptoms like aggregate state reporting of laboratory hospitalizations and death.”) I think I determined the fundamental problem with these latest figures.

The CDC has adopted, for the first time in epidemiological methodology, a technique that extrapolates numbers from very limited and dubious samplings. Reports were compiled 64 counties from ten states. How many counties are there in our fifty states, total? I didn’t feel it necessary to calculate an exact number, but Indiana has 92 and South Dakota has 66. Can we conclude that we are working with a very small sample?

For more go here: http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/11/who-does-the-cdc-work-for/

Quote from: John_Back_From_The_Club_O on November 16, 2009, 09:05:39 PM

Can we trust the CDC?

Sure we can.

We can trust they are working hard to give us the worst possible outcome.

The word "government" is becoming interchangeable with "thinly veiled death machine."

CBS Reveals that Swine Flu Cases Seriously Overestimated By CDC
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/24/CBS-Reveals-that-Swine-Flu-Cases-Seriously-Overestimated.aspx

CDC Denies Everything

Surprise! CDC says that dead and paralyzed 8 year old girls is GREAT!!!!!!!!! « on: August 20, 2009, 11:04:01 PM »

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UPDATE 2-U.S. health officials back safety of Merck vaccine
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssPharmaceuticals%20-%20Generic%20&%20Specialty/idUSN2052127820090820
Thu Aug 20, 2009 3:11pm EDT


WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - U.S. health officials again backed on Thursday the safety of Merck & Co Inc's (MRK.N) vaccine to prevent infection by a virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer.

The Gardasil vaccine "continues to be safe and effective, and its benefits continue to outweigh its risks," the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement.

Gardasil protects against infection with four strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), a common sexually transmitted virus that causes genital warts and most cases of cervical cancer.

Merck distributed more than 23 million doses of Gardasil in the United States since its approval in June 2006 through the end of 2008, the FDA and CDC said. It is one of Merck's top-selling products but sales have been hurt by competition from a rival vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK.L). Second-quarter Gardasil sales were $268 million.

On Tuesday, CDC and FDA researchers wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association that problems such as fainting and nausea remained rare among females who received Gardasil and the vaccine did not appear to be causing unusual side effects.

The researchers said 32 deaths were listed in a government database that collects reports of health problems seen in people after vaccination.

The reports show only that a patient became ill or died after receiving a vaccine, not that a vaccine was the cause.

The FDA and CDC statement said "concerns have been raised about" the reports of deaths of people who received Gardasil.

"There was not a common pattern to the deaths that would suggest they were caused by the vaccine," the agencies said.

Also, "there is no evidence that Gardasil has increased the rate of" Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that causes muscle weakness, the agencies said.

Cervical cancer kills 3,870 women a year in the United States and 280,000 globally.

Merck shares fell less than 1 percent to $31.20 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

The FDA and CDC statement was posted on the FDA website here. (Reporting by Lisa Richwine, Editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Gunna Dickson)

"In addition to the four cases of death from blood clots, there was also one reported
death due to myocarditis, which is an inflammation of the heart, as well as one death
from arrhythmia and one death from meningitis. Both the arrhythmia and meningitis
cases occurred months after the patients received the Gardasil vaccine; the myocarditis
death occurred six days after vaccination but was a pre-existing condition. Even
excluding these deaths though, there are still fourteen cases that occurred within three
weeks of receiving the vaccine. One was from anaphylactic shock:

An 11-year-old female was vaccinated “within the
past month” in approximately May 2007 with a first
dose of Gardasil. Subsequently, 3 days after
vaccination the patient presented to an ER . . . the
physician from the hospital said that “the death was
due to an anaphylactic reaction to Gardasil.”
VAERS ID: 280163-1 (D)

The remaining deaths reported to VAERS all have unknown causes; however, all but one
occurred within three weeks of receiving Gardasil, and six occurred within three days.
Below are additional excerpts from deaths with no apparent cause reported to VAERS:

A 18-year-old female patient was vaccinated with the first
dose of Gardasil . . . In the evening of the same day she was
found unconscious (or liveless) [sic] by the mother.
Resuscitation was performed by the emergency doctor but
was unsuccessful, i.e. the patient finally died . . . The cause
of death of this patient remains totally unclear.
VAERS ID: 300741-1 (D).

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A 19-year-old female with no previous medical history
reported, who on 19-Sep-2007 was vaccinated with the 1st
dose of Gardasil . . . On the morning of 12-Oct-2007, the
patient was found dead in her bed . . . Contraception was
stopped 3 months before vaccination. No reason for the
death was detected in autopsy.
VAERS ID: 299377-1 (D)

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Information has been received from a physician’s assistant
concerning a 12-year-old female with no reported medical
history who on approximately 15-Sep-2007 was vaccinated
with Gardasil . . . On 06-OCT-2007 the patient died in her
sleep. No further information was provided.
VAERS ID: 297528-1 (D)

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Sudden unattended death [February 22, 2007] . . . patient
[17-year-old female with no medical history or known
allergies] last seen in office by nurse only on 2/20 for HPV
#3 . . . The autopsy was negative for all findings. Scene
indicated sudden death from collapse and fall.
VAERS ID: 305606-1 (D)

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Information has been received from a physician concerning
a 20-year-old female with no medical history reported, who
on 01-APR-2008 was vaccinated with a dose of Gardasil.
On 05-APR-2008, the patient died four days after receiving
Gardasil . . . An autopsy was performed which ruled out
suicide and anything suspicious. The cause of death is
currently unknown.
VAERS ID: 310262-1 (D) 49

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Perhaps all these deaths are simply coincidence, but given the unknowns about Gardasil
and its overall safety, it is far too important an issue to simply ignore."

From the Judicial watch investigation on HPV vax

(never mind, i can't edit)

from the stupid article:
"The reports show only that a patient became ill or died after receiving a vaccine, not that a vaccine was the cause."

That's like someone who just shot you in the head saying that you didn't die from the bullet or the gun, you just died from "blood loss".

Here's an old WP article from back when they first started giving the vaccine out

"This vaccine is a significant advance in the protection of women's health in that it strikes at the infections that are the root cause of many cervical cancers," said FDA Acting Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach.

He predicted that the vaccine -- the first ever designed specifically to prevent a cancer -- will have a "dramatic effect" on the health of women worldwide."

(Oh, Mr. Eschenbach, you don't know how right you are.)