Rogue Fake Codecs on the Rise

By Paul | Feb 27, 2009

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Panda Labs has been talking about Adware/VideoPlay and they are seeing a lot of variants on this. They even play a game, find the difference in the installation screen:

Now as you can see this look to be the same agreement in all those difference installation. Some things to consider Never install any software from a website that you don’t know Nothing about about.

Panda Labs also talks about these new variants in regards to what they do:

This file spreads by making copies of itself in the removable drives and it also creates an autorun.inf in order to be run when they are accessed. This file collects the data stored in the browsers, such as cookies, passwords, profiles, email accounts, etc, and connects to a remote address to send the information.
[Via Panda Labs Blog]

Tech Journalist breaks the silence — Journalist got Pwned!!

By Paul | Feb 18, 2009

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It was another ordinary day for this tech journalist. He had just waken up from his lovely dreams and hadn’t realized that he was being baited with Phish. Yes that is correct he actually gave out his password to an Phish site and didn’t know it.

I have to admit that he didn’t hide it, in fact he decided to post about how he got Pwned and what happened.

The Face Of A Facebook Phishing Scam

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As you can see the site : Facebookcom.awardspace.com is a phishing site and should never give out your information to third parties. Some things to remember if you get an email with a link sometimes won’t send you to the real link. This can be easily done just like blogging. You don’t know where you will end up when you click an email link. One thing to remember is if in doubt log into facebook the old fashion way and see for yourself.

Twitter Spam bots are hot to trot: http://gentai.com/revenge1

By Paul | Dec 29, 2008

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Ok 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:

These people are trying to get you to click on there links and

get you give them email accounts. This has been socially engineered to look like it is real. I gave them a 10 min email account to see what they sent me. It was a link to there porn site. Wanting me to give them my credit card or checking account information and to join there site. I don’t think so, not this old dog. Anyways if you get this spam from a user you might just want to block these people. Some of these people have followers. Hmm I don’t know about these people. I guess they want you to send an email to other people to spam them also. How nice of them to social engineer this scheme so you can make your friends and family mad at you and probably not even talk to you. So that is why it is good not to auto-follow people when they subscribe to your twitter account. Some people have that set. Some people just don’t learn. I am sure some people will like this site for other reasons but please don’t spam people with this little site. Please don’t put people on that list.

Cricket Broad Band Modem Extended Review 12/23/08

By Paul | Dec 23, 2008

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The UM100c is No Longer Available, Please check out the Cricket A600 Modem Review Or the UM185 Broadband modem. The UM185 modem might be a replacement to the UM100.

after the last fiasco of the troubles, I had with Cricket. I wanted to talk about some of the performance of the Broad band that I experienced going from one City to another major City. I thought I’d explain how well this went from one City to another. While on the road we had to watch for sleet and ice conditions of the surrounding area.

I had the system going through the whole part of this travel and thought I’d share my impression of the speed and reliability of the service. This is my expressions:

A few times I’ve had to activate the modem — During the trip I had to activate at least twice from once city to the other but that created no major problems and took relatively short time to activate.
Got comparative speeds all on highway – This is due to distances and where the cellular towers are and how they respond to incoming and outgoing request. Although there were many hills it seemed to keep about the same all through the drive.