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WTF?? Click the picture above to view full screen. Notice the window box above, is Control Panel - Windows Security Center - shows the Virus Protection cannot find antivirus on this computer. And the below window box is Windows Live OneCare, proves antivirus has been turned ON, reversion revision up-to-date, and most recently scanned.
I am using 90-day trial subscription to see how performance Windows Live OneCare are..
Seems the problem is Windows Vista does not recognize OneCare?
Today is the month of December. I spotted the malware with fake Christmas greeting postcard in my inbox for my first time:
See the circled red in the image above? I always double-check the url link, I spotted the file extension ending with *.exe, I reported Gmail team on this as spam and phishing.
Merry Christmas.
I have admit to tell you, I am MySpace junkie who visit this site occasionally. Why is that? Because I like to share my real-life profile to people, like to keep in touch with old faces from my elementary through college to keep in touch and share their pictures. I usually to check if there are new comment/message/pictures from friends who-I-know in this site.
According to Alexa.com as of January 16 2006, MySpace.com ranked #6 most visited website in globally behind Yahoo, Google, MSN and YouTube.
If you happen to be MySpace addiction, log in every day to get comment, message from your profile and its pictures, post your personal blog entry, view friends contacts across the social networking. You might never know something is bad happen to you and others inside MySpace site.
Today on my new day of the week, I went to MySpace.com site, click to login into the page, enter my email address and password to log into my splash profile page.....
According to Microsoft Password checker:
A strong password should appear to be a random string of characters to an attacker. It should be 14 characters or longer, (eight characters or longer at a minimum). It should include a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols.
Test06 is Weak. 2ownez96 is Medium. $l1o9v7e7 is Strong. iForg0tmyPa55w0rd is Best.
The problem with those password, the longer and complicated, more likely to forget if does not use this much. Get used to this if you need this for bank online to have Best password. Use social networking for weak and medium. Your email account should have Strong. Practice this for remembering the password only in isolated area.
Via PIRILLO.EXE
I received a message from my Gmail:
Subject: Unauthorized Access ReportYou have added laptopseller@yahoo.com as a new email address for your PayPal account.
If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with your account, please contact PayPal customer service at:
https://www.paypal.com/row/wf/f=ap_email
Thank you for using PayPal!
The Pay Pal TeamPROTECT YOUR PASSWORD
NEVER give your password to anyone and ONLY log in at https://www.paypal.com/. Protect yourself against fraudulent websites by opening a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) and typing in the PayPal URL every time you log in to your account.
This is phishing. Google defines is the act of tricking someone into giving them confidential information or tricking them into doing something that they normally wouldn't do or shouldn't do. The purpose is to fool you into entering user names, passwords, Social Security numbers, and financial information. The scammers could steal your identify and the money from your bank.
Keep in mind to watch the link to make sure it's bogus - if the URL address link is different than PayPal domain name (For example, I received from PayPal asking this link: https://www.paypal.com/row/wf/f=ap_email <http://rrcs-24-242-158-134.sw.biz.rr.com:82/cmd/index.php>. The address inside the angle brackets (< > ) reveals that the source isn't PayPal at all. This is bogus email. Very sick.
If you do not understand at all, then you have a problem.
You probably want to know how you got spam in your personal email account, wondering how did they find you? There are many ways the spammers and fraudsters can obtain this information into your email messages:
1) From online forums or newsgroups that you may participate in for the purpose of posting questions/comments on any number of topics.2) By using "spiders" to search the Internet. Spiders are programs that automatically retrieve web pages, repeatedly following links on one page to retrieve another page. These programs are called spiders because the "crawl" over the Web. Spiders visit web pages looking for e-mail addresses, which is relatively easy, since e-mail addresses contain the "@" symbol.
3) From online job sites where you may have posted your resume.
4) Bogus social networking. From online dating services; chat rooms that may require an e-mail address to participate; and AOL profiles or other "user profiles" that you may have created on the Internet
5) From accessing a shared, public computer that you used to access your e-mail account.
6) From the address books and e-mails on a friend's computer, this may have been compromised.
7) From "signing" the Guestbook on a website you may have visited and an e-mail petition using your name and e-mail address and then sending it to others, especially if there is a request to also send it to the originator of the petition.
8) Spammers use software to randomly generate e-mail addresses, especially for large Internet Service Providers (ISPs), in hopes of reaching legitimate addresses with their mailings.
My friend bought a new PC a year ago. I warned my friend to get anti-virus software installed on their computer before using it. Five months later, my friend called a help about his computer problems - horribly slow and tons of pop-ads every 5 minutes. I came over and found that he didn't have anti-virus software on his computer. I told him that his computer is infected - that means the virus infected on his computer. I was told that virus infected and could harm the computer in many different ways. I knew that he ignored my words. My friend said he does not like spending their money to buy software because he thinks it is stupid and boring. I told him that if he have bought anti-virus and installed 5 months ago and today he would have his computer run faster and no pop-up ads.
I showed to my friend that I have been using my PC computer for two years since I bought it, and I never had any problems. I take good care of my computer.Here is my advice to protect your computer:
Anti-virus. It must be installed on your computer immediately as you get new computer. The anti-virus must be on all time. You need to turn on the automated for getting updated version daily.
Security Patches. For Windows XP, you need to go 'Windows Update' to download any of the patches to improve the security protection and prevent the vulnerabilities.
Get Service Pack 2. Nuff' said.
However, I am using Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MSBA). It is widely most used for Win2000 and WinXP. MSBA is free, best practices vulnerability assessment tool for any Microsoft platform. It scans most of the Microsoft platform on your computer if there are any vulnerabilities.
If you met all the stuff to protect your computer, then you're clean and good to go.
My free version of anti-virus, AVG I have been using for two years – this software is about to expire soon, and they asked me to pay for new version of AVG. I wasn’t pleased with this anti-virus software, because I had trojan virus on my computer – five times this year. I had a difficulty removing this, I spend lot of time googling the sites for instructions manual to rid the virus into my Win XP (I removed it somewhat good.)
Right now, it’s about time: I am scouting the best anti-virus software to make my life easier. I have point out that I know lot of people will say that there is no single best anti-virus (AV) scanner and it is up to a person’s opinion. I know that, so I am looking for the best AV scanner that is recommended by people who know this thing well. I don’t mind to afford the anti-virus software. I’m not going to buy top two marketing AV products: Norton and McAfee; because it eats up the RAM to cause the slow down on my XP. Here are some of quick preview I got words from people:
Nod32 – the message board pointed out that it beats every O/S virus test for AV. I am only interested into Win XP.
Panda – It looks very promising. Informative. It is pretty costly, and I got a word from the guy that he is very happy with it for three years..
Kaspersky – Another guy said it detects a lot more stuff than top two AV products..
ca – Got this brochure that it delivers low disk space and RAM than any AV applications.
Well, what about YOU? Leave the comment here!
