Year: 2009

A look behind SmartEcard.COM

Paul

I saw that Graham Cluely Blog talked about the front page and How this ws used on twitter but Most people who did the IQ test still need to fix your Cell Phone account:

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If people didn’t scroll down in the other windows you would of never know there was something you need to watch for.  After you do the 5 questions , you will see this:

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then you enter that information and hit continue and it comes up with this:

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As you can see the people who put in there Cellular Numbers will want to send an text Message with STOP to short code 86455.  It looks like this is a Subscription service where you pay a monthly for something like this and that you don’t need it.   I would guess somehow someone is getting money for each and every person who signs up.  This is most likely a Commission based and the person tried to get people to sign up through the website by saying you have a Ecard or some other thing.

What would you do? No Electricy, No Phone, No Internet?

Paul

World Net Daily published an Article that really made me think.

What would you do with your website if we had no Electricity?  That is a valid question?  Would it pay for itself or would you loost your domain and all because you couldn’t pay the website bill because you had no way to pay?  Just like Discovery, Mastercard, and Visa credit cards would become useless because there would be no way to use them in today’s technology.

[ad#cricket-right-ez]If we had a Electromagnet Pulse explode over your country, there would be no clean water, no gas, no electricity, and you’d have to walk everywhere.   Plus this would cause industry to screech to a halt.   There would be no more food coming in for stores or packages being delivered.

It represents what MacGyver the show once talked about crippling the entire city.  The episode was Called “Easy Target” and was produced in 1989 quite a few years ago but still shows just how people have been talking about this for quite some time.

This all stems for the Doomsday Scenario, in which we all would have to struggle to live for several months or over a year.  Do you think you could survive that?  I ask these questions to make people think and come up with your own answers.  I’m going to buy the book and read it just because it is though provoking!!

Are you seeing the fail whale — Oprah to Kill Twitter!!

Paul

I found Oprahs twitter account and this isn’t funny, every time I refresh her account it keeps getting bigger!!  I was going to search for her and I see this:

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According to people on twitter that she will talk about Twitter tomorrow, April 17, 2009.  So what does that mean there will be a whole influx of people joining Twitter and people following her so I would imagine tomorrow and the next few days, you will see the great white whale!!  Twitter will be sluggish and possible unresponsive the next few days also.

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You best bet is not stress Twitter out to much but I am curious to see if this actually breaks Twitter.  Only time will tell but I am sure going to keep watch on this just because this is big news!!

*Update*
From the tweets I am seeing this all stems from:

ashtonkutcher

Just to let you know he has 977,307 as of current but that should change.  So this will be rocking Twitter tomorrow guys!!

A600 has an External RF Antenna

Paul

After someone makes a comment on disqus about there being an external antenna plug and I found it:

As you can see the External antenna connector is on the back of the a600, I have talked to someone who says he thinks he knows which ones will work but I wanted to let people know who only have a bar who wants a better connection. I will be testing out some stuff later on next week and will post about it and how much of a difference they make in long run.

If you want to see it for yourself just take the rubber piece off the back right near the Cricket name, it looks to be easily taken off and put back on. I just used my fingernails to get it off, so it should be really easy to do!!

[intlink id=”3387″ type=”post”]That little connector will help you get more signal[/intlink] out and should help improve your internet speeds with a little help from getting the right connector to attach to it. [ad#text-broadband1]

Mebroot becomes More Stealthier!!

Paul

Well Here is something we should all be on the look out for:
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Thousands of Web sites have been rigged to deliver a powerful piece of malicious software that many security products may be unprepared to handle.

Mebroot inserts program hooks into various functions of the kernel, or the operating system’s core code. Once Mebroot has taken hold, the malware then makes it appear that the MBR hasn’t been tampered with.

[Via Pcworld Magazine]

I will be updating my [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]Malware Resource[/intlink] for the Prevx Software, but this looks to be a very bad root kit.  From my understanding most of the security related software.   It seems this little program will become even harder to detect and remove.   It also looks like this is ready to start infecting people with this root kit.   You should update every part of your system from [intlink id=”3327″ type=”post”]Windows Patches[/intlink] to Browser. [intlink id=”2229″ type=”post”] Securnia once said[/intlink] that most people are not patched fully!!  Just like the [intlink id=”3301″ type=”post”]Conficker Worm[/intlink], if your not fully patched and keeping anti-virus and Firewalls on your system then you might as well be walking on nails.