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Creative Labs has instituted a partial product recall after discovering that it accidentally shipped approximately 3,700 MP3 players contaminated with a Windows virus. Filesystems of affected 5GB Zen Neeons players contain a file infected with the Wullik-B (AKA Rays-A) email worm. The worm won't infect PCs unless the user browses the player files and clicks on the infected file, security firm F-Secure reports.

The worm involved in this case was first spotted in November 2003 and is fairly obscure. It's likely it got onto the infected players after a Windows PC used in Creative's production line got clobbered by the malware. Wullik-B spreads by either mass mailing copies of itself or by dropping itself into shared folders.

Creative is reporting that the virus affects players with serial numbers between 1230528000001 and 1230533001680 that have shipped in Japan in late July. According to a translation of Creative's statement (in Japanese) on the security flap the firm has temporarily stopped shipping Zen Neeons players while its partners assist in the recall of the infected batch. The firm said it has identified the source of the outbreak and fixed the problem. Creative said the virus contamination issue was confined to Zen Neeons players and didn't affect any of its other products. ®
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Creative MP3 players ship with virus.
 
Menstruation and a woman's menstrual cycle play a very large part in her life. If you consider the average woman menstruates from the time she is twelve years old until she is about fifty years of age, experiences a menstrual period five days in length every twenty-eight days, she spends an average of seven years of her life menstruating. In addition, some aspect of her menstrual cycle may play a part in her daily life for thirty or more years. As a result, a woman's menstrual cycle plays a major part in her and her partner's sex life.

In modern society there appears to be an almost universal aversion to menstruating women and symbols of menstruation. Why do people associate menstruation with bad things? We often fear what we do not understand. The idea that a woman could "bleed" on a regular schedule, in phase with the moon, and with no signs of illness is frightening to some. To the best of my knowledge we still do not know exactly how and why a woman's body works in this manner. The scent of blood can attract the attention of hungry carnivores so a menstruating woman could possibly put a group of people at risk of attack. Perhaps as a result, menstruating women have often been excluded from group activities. Menstrual blood, menses, is often seen as having a magical quality and as a result has been included in magical potions. Who uses magical potions? Usually witches, women with mysterious powers. Some speculate men are envious of women so they have condemned something they can never experience. Despite the common stereotypes that are associated with menstruating women, menstruation should be seen as a normal and healthy part of men and women's lives.
 
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