In the last 24 hours the spammers and scammers have begun to distribute spam with the guise to:
Harvest Email Addresses – This seems to used to ask users to respond to the email to get “top secret” information about how he died. Security experts believe this is an attempt to verify email addresses for future spam attempts. Although it isn’t wise to reply to people you don’t know about it at least has very little risk with your computer for the time being.
Fake Codecs and Hidden Trojans – Seems this is the main thing they are doing right now to get personal computers on their networks. So you should never visit a site you don’t know about without having an Anti-virus software and A firewall to better protect your system.
Extortion Ware — This one is very interesting, and According to Webroot. You should avoid sites that you don’t know anything about. With News of anything major you should keep with the trusted news sites. This one looks to be the bad guy type.
These seem to be a common ploy with scammers and spammers who want to get money from you in one way or another. I have been watching the Google searches and haven’t seen any malicious sites but I could of missed one here and there.
You should always have an Anti-virus and Firewall available to help protect your system from these types of attacks. If you had some kind of protection to better protect your computer. Remember no one can stop computer infections but you.
November 22, 2008guidelines | Posted by Paul Sylvester
According to Techcrunch Google Pulls the Google SearchWiki. Unsure as to way but here’s what they said:
Users are reporting that the recent changes to Google’s search engine, called SearchWiki, have simply disappeared from the site. It’s certainly gone from my account.
User reactions were mixed but weighted heavily towards “this is lame,” and there was no way to turn off the features other than to conduct Google searches without being logged in. Another way to turn it off was to switch search engines.
I’ve got my theory on this, and it’s quite a good theory. I think it was a making search results come up wrong or not at all. The last two days they’ve had that going my page views have drop BIG time. According to my Stats I’ve had 236 Unique Visits for Thursday, and 232 Wednesday. My Friday stats show that I only got 185 Unique Visits, dropping 40 to 50 people. My stats for today which is incomplete shows that I’ve only gotten 136 unique visits. Although that is complete you can see where I dropped drastically. I think Google was getting yelled at by websites due to the stats dropping. I am guessing people could tell if they wanted to go to a site just by reading the comments. This will hurt every site, including TechCrunch. I will say this is only a theory and this might or might not be the case.
This however is the best possible explanation that I could come up with. Do you know why they did that? I don’t know?
Google has started to do let people rate the searches and help find the better articles. Google is calling it Searchwiki. Here is a screen shot:
You can now help judge and rate search results. You can also X out the ones that are not right. I am going to play around with this even more. It started out on Google Trends and Now people are all wanting to know more about this. This could help my site even more. I want to know what others are thinking about this? Is this Good or can this be good for the spammers? You decide.
These are just a few but I wanted to let you see what other websites are talking about this new feature. I do want to hear what you think about all this and what is likely to come later on?
After looking around the blogosphere, I’ve come to the realization that people are starting to get hyped up over Windows 7. In one blog post from it.toolbox.com:
Windows 7 is due to hit beta and release in 2009, and odds are likely that if the pundits, all of us on the blogosphere and other places like PC World, Cnet, and others all agree that this works the way a computer was supposed to work will help drive sales. What is also interesting is that Microsoft is really pushing to get this puppy out. Along with the bloat are gone the five years of development.
I totally agree with what he is saying on the possibility to have an operating system actually do what it is told. Some things people have been looking for in there Searches in regards to Windows Vista are:
From what I can tell people are really having problems with Vista and Shutting down. It always hangs for about 10 to 20 minutes. I’ve come up with a few tricks to shutdown vista little more. So let’s get back to why people are so interested in Windows 7, that is easy they want to have a OS that will make them have a better experience with Vista. I also think it was the Vista and Macintosh aids that also made people not like Vista. Microsoft is just now starting to fight back but the Damage is done and people feel Vista is just not worth using or buying. I tend to disagree, with the flaws of this Operating system, I’ve learn so much from diving in and getting my hands dirty so to speak.
Where is the future of Window Vista, I say the next Operating system will “Windows 7″ but it will be Vista Version 2. It should be far better than Version 1, because of having all that time to fix the most common mistakes and programming errors. It is likely going to create a smoother transition for people from XP to Vista V.2. I am not going to call it Windows 7 because it is so similar to Vista and it just doesn’t seem right. What are you going to call it when it comes out?
I will leave the specualation for WIndows 7 for some others and how they will want to hype up this new operating system because people want something better than Vista. I can not deny them, there will always be people to find flaws in any Operating System. I do want want to be in the Windows 7 Beta just so I can test it out and keep people up to date on what might or might not be in the system when it comes out. I think it has a lot of potential, don’t you?
Categories: Anti-virus, Virus, Vista Shortcuts, Vulnebilities, WIndows, Web site, Windows 7, Windows Update, Windows Vista | 
Tags: codecs, Michael Jackson, Searches, Trojans, Virus, websitefeedback | 
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