Archives for the 'Security' Category
I was hit by MySpace worm
Published on 6 Aug 2006 at 9:40 am.
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I don’t really look at my own profile that much unless I am changing sometime, so it took almost a whole month for me to find out I was hit by a Myspace worm. Why did not one tell me that my profile was coming up with no background? Did you all think I when [...]
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Free Mcafee Security Software to Comcast customers
Published on 23 Aug 2005 at 2:47 am.
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Did you know if you are a Comcast High-Speed Internet customer you can get Mcafee Virusscan, Personal Firewall Plus, Parental Control and Identity Theft Protection all for free. So if you’re a Comcast High-Speed Internet customer and need security software go download and install your free security software at: http://www.comcast.net/security/mcafee/ These days it really is [...]
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Nailing the Nail.exe
Published on 16 Aug 2005 at 8:21 pm.
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A friend’s son’s laptop was badly infected with spyware and viruses, so he asked me to clean it up. It had something like 900+ spyware items on it plus like 40 viruses running on it. This could have been avoided if he had kept his anti-virus updated, but it was more than a year out [...]
How to secure your PC system from Physical access tampering
Published on 27 Jun 2005 at 4:34 am.
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All computers are made so that if you have physical access to them you can do anything. This can cause security concerns if a system is in a place where un-trusted persons can access the system physically. The best way to keep someone from tampering with a PC system is to lock in it a [...]
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The Ten Commandments of PC Security
Published on 29 May 2005 at 12:39 pm.
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These commandments are very good, but I can’ take credit for this one. Someone email this to me, and the original author is unknown. I. Remember thy antivirus software and keep it updated. It’s not enough to have the software installed (if you don’t have an antivirus package, stop reading right now and get one); [...]
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Money Order Scam
Published on 6 Apr 2005 at 11:40 pm.
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Here we go again with scams. There are a number of Money Order Scams going around the net. One of them that I have seen a lot of lately is that someone will start up an IM (instant messaging) chat with you and may even chat with you on and off for a few days [...]
Caller ID can be Spoofed
Published on 22 Feb 2005 at 3:25 am.
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This is something that has been known for sometime to hackers, but it is becoming more common place. Just because your Caller ID says something does not make it so. Caller ID is just a short data burst that happened shortly after the first ring. So if you have equipment that can create the data [...]
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Microsoft to Scuttle Software Pirates
Published on 3 Feb 2005 at 7:56 pm.
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Microsoft is planning to start requiring proof of Microsoft Genuine software for software updates. They are starting off with the Windows update web page sometime around July 2005. One of the best protections against virus and hacker attacks is keeping up on the critical windows updates. Being a software developer myself; I have never condoned [...]
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More Spam Attacks
Published on 1 Jan 2005 at 1:20 am.
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Yes Timelordshangout has been under more comment spam attacks. I am surprised at how fast they are adapting to my security counter measures. Of course I have plenty of security tricks to keep them busy, and of course security has been tightened up on comment post yet again. Please let me know if you are [...]
Spam Attack on WordPress Blogs
Published on 20 Dec 2004 at 10:05 pm.
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Earlier today a program or script started posting random comments to this site which forced me to temporally disable comments on the site for about an hour. The problem takes advantage of the internal scripts inside WordPress to process the spam comments. I have changed the way the internal scripts interact with each other so [...]
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Timelord’s Hangout Under Spam Attack
Published on 20 Dec 2004 at 4:16 pm.
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Comments are temporarily disabled because Timelord’s Hangout is under Spam Attack. I am sorry for the inconvenient. I hope to be able to restore comment functionality soon. Later, The Timelord
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Anonymous Web Surfing Made Easy With FireFox
Published on 20 Dec 2004 at 1:44 am.
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For those that don’t know what FireFox is; it is a web browser. It is similar to IE (Internet Explorer) that comes with windows, and most use IE because it comes with windows. However there are a number of other software products that can be used to surf the net. FireFox is one of the [...]
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Remote Desktop (Wireless)
Published on 9 Dec 2004 at 12:56 am.
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I use my desktop system from my laptop wirelessly. This allows me to sit in my easy chair and watch TV while surfing and using all the horse power (CPU, Disk Space, etc.) of my desktop system. This can be done with “remote desktop” which is part of Windows XP Pro. So you get a [...]
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Trusted Sites
Published on 17 Nov 2004 at 8:35 pm.
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One of the problems with having higher security is that some sites you really need to work stop working because your security is too high. Like say your bank which may use activeX or Java that would be blocked by the normal security settings. The solution is to put the sites you need to get [...]
Anonymous Web Surfing
Published on 7 Nov 2004 at 1:14 am.
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It use to be that only hackers needed to use Anonymous web surfing to cover there tracks however with more and more tracking software being used for marketing normal users my want to take advantage of Anonymous web surfing. Anonymous Web Surfing is a way to hide you identity online. You computer’s IP address is [...]
Email Spoofing
Published on 10 Oct 2004 at 2:30 am.
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Spoofing meaning to deceive or fool someone. Email spoofing is email that is sent to fool you into thinking it is from someone else. Spammers sometimes use spoofing to hide there true identity because most if not all ISP would disconnect them for spamming activities. The more hideous from of email spoofing is when a [...]
Norton Products Subscriptions
Published on 3 Oct 2004 at 7:31 pm.
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A friend asked me the other day about renewing there subscription to Norton Antivirus. I told them not to bother with a subscription and just to by the new version which comes with a 1 year subscription. The subscriptions are only slightly cheaper than getting the update currently I think it is $10 more for [...]
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New version of Ad-Aware
Published on 11 Aug 2004 at 12:51 am.
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Ad-Aware just released a new version that they are calling Ad-Aware SE. A large number of improvements have been made, and I would suggest that everyone download it and run a scan. Ad-Aware scans, finds and removes spy-ware from your system. What spy-ware you ask will if you read the tech tips page you would [...]
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Window XP SP2 is out
Published on 11 Aug 2004 at 12:32 am.
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Well the new update Windows XP SP2 is out. The SP stands for Service Pack. This is a large update it is 266MB so if you are still on dial up you are going to be downloading it for sometime. It took almost 15 min to download on my cable modem with a download accelerator [...]
Browser Hijacks
Published on 2 Aug 2004 at 2:40 am.
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Well if computer viruses, worms, spyware, and spam were not annoying enough someone decided to come up with “Browser HijackingÃ¢â‚¬Âť. Oh joy! So what is a “Browser HijackÃ¢â‚¬Âť? The most simplistic example of one is where your home page is set to a new search site with out your consent. Well in fact in most [...]