Cuban News Agency refutes accusation of spreading internet virus

HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 6 (acn) Edda Diz Garces, director of the Cuban News Agency, described as slander a report published by the Caribbean News Now website stating the agency´s website was, allegedly, ¨dispensing a dangerous virus¨ to steal information.

Diz Garces said that, upon the release of the report, Cuban IT experts carried out a throughout research to determine the presence of such virus within the ACN website, and came out with negative results.
Further search in the archives confirmed no virus of any kind were to be found, and people that access www.acn.cu might not fear the information could be stolen.
Diz Garces pointed out that it was suspicions that the smear campaign was started by a Guyanese antivirus developer, Dennis Adonis, who owns a company, Computer Care-Guyana, that provides products to fight these viruses.
Mister Adonis failed to come forward with a name for the virus or a report to back up his allegations, as it is common practice for companies similar to his, like McAfee, Norton, AVG, Avast and Kaspersky.
Maybe, the Guyanese entrepreneur mistook for a virus the anti-copy extension provided by the open source software Joomla, that ACN news agency uses to protect the unauthorized dissemination of its contents, said the director.
Diz Garces stated there were many tools in the web that could have shown no abusive behavior or unauthorized data transmission had originated from the Cuban News website, as the test carried out by the Cuban experts proved, before publishing that damaging report.
As a person commented in the Caribbean News Now website ¨ This amounts to nothing more than a cheap shot at Cuba and its Cuban News Agency (ACN), ¨ Diz Garces said.