Christopher, could you give a reference for your use of "Null hypothesis"? ------------------------------------- The following was stated: "Henry's science background is in Chemistry. Mine was originally Animal Science for Pre-Vet, then a recent "second time around" at college for Psychology and Physical Anthropology, with special interests in genetics, ethology, and a dash of neural and hormonal influences on behavior. So neither of us is really the one to ask about plant viruses. That person would be Dr. Malcolm Manners." ------------------------------------------------------------ H.Kuska comment. A Ph.D degree in Physical Chemistry is expected to prepare a scientist to investigate the physics, and chemistry involved in understanding nature. It is a very broad theoretical based major in nature understanding. Some examples can be found in the following links: http://degreedirectory.org/articles/Colleges_with_Physical_Chemistry_Degree_Programs_FAQs.html "Physical chemistry seeks to understand the physical and scientific basis of molecular properties and chemical phenomena. It can be used to understand how proteins fold, how nanostructures form and why holes in the ozone layer originated" http://degreedirectory.org/directory/category/Physical_Science/Chemistry_Sciences/Theoretical_and_Physical_Chemistry.html ----------------------------------------------------- Regarding Dr. Manners knowledge and my knowledge of rose viruses. In almost any field there are more than one Ph.D. scientist that can contribute to the field. This is illustrated in this particular situation by the citations in one of the most recent rose viruses reviewed published scientific papers. Dr. Manners is cited for his: " Manners MM (1997) Effects of rose mosaic disease on performance of hybrid tea roses in Florida. Proc Fla State Hortic Soc 110:118��"121" This is the context for the use of his presented paper: "Previous reports have shown that symptom expression, virus distribution and virus detection can be influenced by several factors including cultivar, changing seasons/weather and growing conditions (Manners 1997; Sala-Rejczak and Paduch-Cichal 2005; Sertkaya 2010; Wong et al. 1988)." -------------------------------------------------------- I am cited for the following paper: "Kuska H (2003) Can North American rose hybridizers use pollen from virus infected roses? Rose Hybridizers Assoc Newsl 34:7��"10" This is the context for the use of my paper: "PNRSV is known to be transmitted mechanically, by root grafting and by seed (Abdel-Salam et al. 2008; Golino et al. 2011). The virus may be transmitted by pollen in rose although this hasn’t been fully ascertained (Kuska 2003)." AND "Reports of pollen transmission of ApMVin rose are inconclusive (Kuska 2003), but in view of the characteristics of other ilarviruses, it is possible that ApMV could be dispersed by pollen." I feel that the appearance of any reference (unless being attacked) in a reviewed scientific journal means that the authors, reviewers, and editor feel that it has scientific merit for being included. Here is a link that might be useful: link to recent rose research virus paper This post was edited by henry_kuska on Fri, Dec 26, 14 at 10:53

msm84, When your Grand daughter "x-ed" it out. That may have been how it got installed after visiting a bad website. NEVER X OUT or even touch the screen with your cursor/mouse on a popup of this type. What you want to do is to left click the taskbar and bring up the Task Manager and end the process. This type of Rogue program is called Scareware. It entices you to purchase the program to remove malicious content that is fictitious. This is a complete scam as the scan results are all fake and many of the listed files are actually legitimate files that if removed could cause problems for your computer. Antivirus 8 will also attempt to protect itself by not allowing you to run various programs that may assist in removing it. When you attempt to run these types of programs, Antivirus8 will terminate it and then state that the file is infected. In conjunction to installing SpywareBlaster, I also recommend her to install WOT (Web of Trust). This will prevent access to bad sites as long as you heed the warnings to not enter them. Self discipline is the key to prevention! Please follow through with getting professional help before installing anything more. Even if you use MBAM in safe mode, there is still a registry key that will be needing attention! These programs are very aggressive and do leave traces behind. Good Luck! bbbluz Here is a link that might be useful: WOT Free download

Please be aware that rats and mice develop tumors much more easily than dogs or people. I read this on the AOL vet board. Furthermore, the tumors they are correlating with the microchips formed right around the microchip, and they are not seeing this in pets. My dog did die of a brain tumor, but since she was a wandering breed, I feel it was prudent to microchip her. And her tumor was very deep and not close to the chip. I am fairly confident the 2 were not related, though certainly I can't be sure. Then again, every time she escaped, it was the tag on her collar that was used to find me.

we have been dealing with this nasty thing daily here on the computer help forum and on many other tech help forums I work on. It is on many legit sites, it gets into the website through a "hole" and even the website owner has no idea it is on their site infecting their visitors. There are 2 very good free programs that so far have been getting rid of it completely. I will provide the links here for you, if you have any problem with this thing head over to the computer help area here and we will help you with it. Also I will give a link here that is excellent in explaining just how this thing works. these 2 free programs are ones you can install and use weekly to make sure your pc is staying clean, but always update them before running a scan. SUPERAntiSpyware Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware here are the directions for this one # Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program. # At the end, be sure a checkmark is placed next to Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, then click Finish. # If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version. # Once the program has loaded, select Perform full scan, then click Scan. # When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results. # Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected. this is the article Anatomy of a Malware Scam http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/22/anatomy_of_a_hack/print.html very good advice there. stay safe!