TINYURL being used by scammers and hackers — How to prevent it!!
Comments OffWith Phishing attempts going on with the TINYURL redirect website, I thought I would show you how you could prevent from going to a site you don’t want. Tinyurl.com has a great little feature, although it is a feature based on your cookies. It however will help prevent you from going to a site that you don’t know anything that about. It’s called the Preview Feature, and is available to any user who wants to use it.
As you can see if you enable it and you go to a click on a tinyurl, you will see this:
You won’t make money from W32:Sality.ao
Comments OffPeople should be cautious of the making money because there is a variant out there trying to leverage the users into thinking they can make money.
McAfee Says “W32/Sality.ao is a parasitic virus that infects Win32 PE executable files. It infects files (*.exe and *.scr files) on the local, network and removable drives by overwriting code in the entry point of the original file and saving the overwritten code in its virus body. It then appends the virus body to the host file.”
Aliases for this Virus is:
- PE_SALITY.JER (Trend Micro)
- Virus.Win32.Sality.aa (Kaspersky)
- Virus.Win32.Sality.y (Ikarus)
- Virus:Win32/Sality.AM (Microsoft)
- W32.Sality.AE (Symantec)
- W32/Sality-AM (Sophos)
- W32/Sality.AE (Norman)
- W32/Sality.AH (Panda)
- W32/Sality.AK (F-Prot)
- Win32.KUKU.a (Rising)
- Win32.Sality.OG (BitDefender)
- Win32/Sality.AA (VET)
These links should help people understand it it. You can visit my Malware Resources to help remove this virus. Something to consider before removing this is to disable your restore points.
Remember there’s no easy to make money, the only real way is to work hard. According to my research the Anti-virus companies have ways to remove this virus and as long as you update your database.
Zero Day For IE7 Being used in the wild.
Comments OffIt looks like IE7 patches are being used right now in the wild. According to TrendMicro:
HTML_DLOADER.AS exploits the CVE-2009-0075 vulnerability, which is already addressed by the MS09-002 security patch released last week. On an unpatched system though, successful exploitation by HTML_DLOADER.AS downloads a backdoor detected as BKDR_AGENT.XZMS.
This is the next step to prevent yourself from getting caught with your pants down so to speak, you need to patch all systems that have internet access. I still like the Autopatcher because it will do the job with very little input from the user. It also makes it easier for people to patch big systems. You should also consider installing some Free Anti-virus software to help protect the systems you do have.
Understanding Adsense for the Beginner
Comments OffSo you have a website and you’d like the site to pay for itself. That can be arranged it however depends on your website performance. You see you won’t make a lot of money if you don’t have several things going for you. I thought I share with you my experience with making money through Adsense. As you saw, I made enough money to pay for the website for 5 years. It isn’t hard to make money it is however very difficult to keep getting the money. Most people don’t know the tricks to making money with Google’s Adsense.
I’m here to help you out a little with understanding it and getting even more money from your adsense. So here we are 3 months into to putting Adsense seriously on my site and let’s take a look shall we:
Offline Update 5.0, Clone of Autopatcher to Some!!
Comments OffOffline updater 5.0 has been released a couple months ago and I just realized it now. This is an excellent tool for IT professionals who want to keep all your Systems up-to-date with the last patches from Microsoft. The systems it supports are Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 x64, And Windows Vista / Server 2008.(32 bit and 64 Bit updates).
Viacom might be going to HULU
Comments OffAccording to some of the news post people are worried about Viacom leaving Time Warner. Now Here’s where Viacom might be going digital. What do I mean Digital, I am talking about going to HULU. If Viacom doesn’t sign a deal with Time Warner, that would leave a space ope for someone else like Hulu.
So Viacom isn’t happy with Time Warner, or They want to go IPTV. Some of the Headlines I’m seeing are:
- Time Warner Cable Loses Viacom: MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central To Go Dark
- Dispute Between Time Warner and Viacom May Affect Cable Shows
- Viacom could pull MTV off Time Warner Cable
- Viacom And Time Warner Cable Play Chicken; Programmer To Pull Networks Over Fee Dispute
These are just a few that I am seeing pop up around the internet. So what does that mean to the internet user? Well On one of there show’s like Dora the Explorer on Nickelodeon will begin to stream some of the shows previews on Dec 29, 2009 for it’s next show. When you go to Nickelodeon Site you get this:
Twitter Spam bots are hot to trot: http://gentai.com/revenge1
Comments OffOk so I was curious why I all of the sudden got people joining my list. each one I look at just to see who these people are have only one twitter message saying this from two different accounts:
and this one also
and once you click that link it takes you to this website and see what they want you to do:
Scoble is Right and Arrington, and Loic are wrong about “authority”?
Comments OffThis weekend the blogosphere flared up over twitter having “authority” search functions. I say this is totally not going to work because some factors. I am not saying they have the right idea but I do see a really major downfall. Loic wants to be able to search for content that has more “authority” and because he is looking for good content. I understand where he is coming from because he wants to look for content for his Seesmic Company. I can see he wants to find the best videos to offer to his users for his company. I totally understand and really appreciate that he wants to work for his company.
Now being that Arrington talked about this on Techcrunch, and agreeing with Loic over this. I have to wonder why he wants to agree. You see he is also into content and understand that if the “authority” for searches in twitter from his blog post means people will flock to his site and he gets more pageviews. I say this is the wrong for him to agree because there is nothing going to stop people finding his content. Also that would mean his blog post would have more “authority” then the common person who might not like this blog post and you wouldn’t see that until you get to the next page or even a few pages back. So we have these two wanting more “authority” and more content.
Uncovering a Virus/Trojan
Comments OffGetting done with the first part really got my juices flowing. I was shopping looking and thinking about this next article. I came up to only one option turning this into a 3-5 length post due to all the content that I will have. So where did we leave off? Oh that is right figuring out if you have a virus/Trojan. The instant I made a post about this 12 hours later someone make a comment and here is what he said:
I can’t wait to read part two of this article. I always wondered how you’d know you’re infected if a virus don’t want to be detected and no virus definitions are yet available, because the virus is so new.
Now the truth is anytime a Virus does something it usually leaves a footprint somewhere and somehow. Even the hardest working hacker can’t plan for all possibilities and that is where we begin. I have been helping people for a while with viruses and know that no matter how hard the virus tries to hide you can usually find it relatively quickly and easily do to virus check here are the ways I’ve done to figure out if they may or may not have a virus/Trojan.
CBS Confirms the Axe of Layoffs for CNET
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CBS throws the gauntlet and says in a statement :
CBS Interactive continues its integration process, which now calls for the further combination of several portions of the division into unified groups oriented around similar content. This important move allows us to better align our premium content for our audiences and our advertisers, and also results in reduction in certain areas that are now duplicated in the new organization structure. We believe these moves are necessary to continue building CBS Interactive into the most creative, most efficient, most profitable and fastest growing Internet company in the media business.”
Xbox Zune? or A Zune Phone?
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Could Microsoft be planning to talk about the Zune. Some blogs are talking about how this will be talked about in next month at CES. According to some posts and I’ll quote:
The Tech Trader Daily column earlier this week on Barron’s reports that Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry predicts Microsoft will reveal a Zune phone next month at CES. Chowdry expects that much like Apple’s iPhone the device will combine music player capabilities with, he says, “some motion enhancement features.”
[Via 1UP]
Although this is a theory, and I can see this happening due to the fact that Microsoft has always like to tie together there products. So what makes this even more tangible is the fact that Microsoft hinted about this in the past:
Dated Dec 20, 2006
Xbox European boss Chris Lewis has admitted for the first time that Microsoft is considering games content for the recently released portable multimedia player Zune.
[via Gamasutra]
As you can see Microsoft did hint this and probably will be fact sooner or later. Some sources are claiming they have this already in the works but it’s still a rumor. I’ll let you decide for yourself.
Upcoming Patch Tuesday
Update for Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP
Install this update to resolve an issue that is caused by revised daylight saving time laws in many countries. This update enables your computer to automatically adjust the computer clock on the correct date in 2008. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows Server 2008 License Terms.
Update for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista
Install this update to resolve a set of known application compatibility issues with Windows Server 2008. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.
Fake Wordpress update 2.6.4 steals data!
The hacked version of the file pluggable appears to be stealing the content of cookies on larger installations of WordPress. Sophos are now detecting this file as Troj/WPHack-A.
[Via Sopho's]
Apparently this little update is a rogue update. According to Sopho’s and Craig Murphy’s blog, it is said to steal your data and send it to another site. This hacked version of Wordpress is coming from wordpresz.org so if you happen to stumble onto this fake update, just delete it and go on with your blogging. Craig talked about how when he logged it this fake update popped up. So sometimes it is safer to do some digging before you apply an update especially to your Operating system. Thanks to Sopho’s for telling people about this fake and dangerous problem.
Living the Life of a Blogger 101
Comments OffHaving been blogging for the last few months and years. I’ve learned so much from blogger the platform. I thought I would talk about that in this post. To give those who want to use Googles Blogger platform to there fullest. It is inconsequential to the grand scheme of blogging. It is not enough to just blog it has to be some kind of meaning in it. You have to think of how best can I help people out. It is legal to use fair use. That is why congress has put it into congress.
Fair Use comes from the idea of using something that is ‘Copyrighted’ and use some portion of it to talk about or as a demonstration. Most people don’t understand that, you can use anything on the web as long as you don’t publish there material fully. I like to us hulu for example. I’ve embedded there videos on my site, and talked about Hulu from time. This last few weeks they had clues out on there site. I started trying to solve the clues they Published to better help figuring out there clues. Although they might consider there promotion as being copyrighted. I used there clues to publish what I considered was fair use. They couldn’t do much other than smile that some one started blogging about there clues weekly because once they published there clues. I had the right to try to figure the clues out. I actually loved doing it.
Hulu United States Only — FAQ
In a Comment on there Hulu Blog,
August 16th, 2008 at 08:52 AM Umm, when exactly did Hulu decide to shut its doors to everyone outside of America? The site’s title is “Watch your Favorites. Anytime. For Free”. I’m sorry Hulu, this is a complete lie, as anyone viewing your site outside of the US is banned from viewing your videos. All the time. So that you know, I intend on writing a letter to Joss Whedon asking that he pull his Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog video from your network and redistribute it to a video site that isn’t run by people who embrace the philosophy “Defective By Design”. That way, the thousands of other people wanting to see this video, like me, don’t have to resort to downloading the thing via the piratebay.
Well, This is something I wanted to discuss for everyone who reads my blog why Hulu isn’t allowing anyone outside of America to see the videos. It’s all have to do with there contracts they have with certain providers.
A Blogger Has Dreams
Comments OffThose who knows someone who has a blog, also knows what the dream of a blogger is. On this case I will go into 5 areas where most bloggers should improve on. Although these aren’t going to be major, you to can create a good blog and encourage users to come back to you all the time. Having dreams isn’t a bad thought or a bad wish. Sometimes having been blogging the way I have been. I see the challenges of coming up with content for the blog. I’ve figured out some important points in making content and full filling the dreams that you have.
Sometimes, I think, bloggers get the bad wrap. They are considered undesirables to the big magazines and the popular medias. You see, in the mind of the big companies, they don’t understand the small guy and how they impact the big companies. A bloggers dream is to impact there inspiration to write something with content.
