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When do you “Never Fold”

PaulMarch 5, 2009

So I got this email and wanted to show you just how try to get you to link to their site:

I got this email and wanted to talk about how people link to sites they shouldn’t. Although this a real site, I had my doubts from the get go. You see it talks about sending 21 visitors to my site. I got to the site Neverfold.net which after I looked and there I am but I wonder why? Because Poker and Calicanis have nothing in common with Poker or at least news and all that.

[ad#ad2-right]As you can see when you go to that site via the link he gives me, which by the way if you weren’t paying attention is a hidden link with Neverfold.net/?pg=YKchR. As you can see this is a way for him to know when you click it to put your name on the forum page. You can tell because Ref: YKchR is at the bottom of the email. This is most likely a generated email by a bot, I did even more research to find out more information. I found out that the so call 5k to 7k page views were bogus. I checked with Alexa, and I find out this:

In the last few days the of this site they have dropped from 2k per day to under 1k because of links dieing out. You see Google takes the page rank out when you don’t have any new people linking to you in 3 months. So I am guessing this has been going on for quite some time. So I had to make sure before I said anything, I did a Google search for my name in there forums and I came up with nothing. I am guessing there is a Nofollow links going on. So I thought I would also make sure to add the Nofollow link. I also know about Google Juice and how it works and know about the No follow. I have read how others are not quite sure what is going. Found this Gambling Forum where they were talking about this type of email and they weren’t to sure about this site. I love how people think you’ll link to them without doing some kind of investigation. I encourage all webmasters if you get an email like this you should do your own investigation and not expect the email to be truthful. Since this email isn’t being truthful to me, I feel no obligation to give it any more than it is due.

Cracking and Warez sites are Host of Trouble!!

PaulMarch 3, 20092 Replies

It is nothing to laugh at and should be understood that gamers have no freedom right now. That said this new Variant to Virux Trojan is in regards to Win32/Vitro Trojan. It seems tobe infecting .exe and .Scr files just like this.

According to Trend Micro:
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The downloaded malware include variants under the FAKEAV, TDSS, and VUNDO families. Infection chains, however, are notable for the presence of VIRUT and VIRUX malware. VIRUX and VIRUT attacks were initially about the volume of infected PCs. The numbers are massive enough to worry Web users and security researchers: around 20,000 PCs are infected per day
Read more: “Crack Sites Distribute VIRUX and FakeAV“

Now it seems to be more and more sites with getting computer infected. It also seems the Malware writers are using these servers for helping infect essentially gamers computers. So for the time being, if you have a favorite game and you want to:

No-CD Crack (This is good for those who want to play the game without the CD)

Key Gen Cracks (This is used for pirated version of a game)

Update Cracks (This is used to prevent CD checking or Also prevent Version Checking)

Game Cheats (This is usually a small program like a bot or some other way for the gamer to cheat)

And should not be Downloaded or USED!! I don’t say that lightly, because Gamers feel they should be able to play any game they want. Although this post will probably make the Gamer developers happy, I do this to tell people that these virus writers are using the gamers to distribute the Virus. I encourage all the gamers out there, that don’t want to loose their games to not download any more of these types of cracks. It seems the virus writers are wanting to infect systems and slow you down. You don’t want to slowed down do you? Please consider getting a Firewall and a Free Anti-virus software to better protect your system.

Facebook Goes Phishing again

PaulMarch 2, 2009

In one of my Previous articles about the Koobface Worm, I talked about the way they were infecting the systems and what you need not do.

It seems that Trend Micro has seen an even more rise in people downloading the WORM_KOOBFACE.AZ and Seems to be on the RISE. This is all done with a Social engineering and Has had some attempts before with this little worm on Facebook.

[ad#ad2-right]After your Infected with this new Variant, it searches for cookies and Sends out a message to people from:
* facebook.com
* hi5.com
* friendster.com
* myyearbook.com
* myspace.com
* bebo.com
* tagged.com
* netlog.com
* fubar.com
* livejournal.com

This seems to be a social engineering Nightmare for these websites and as yet are unsure what else it does but it says the same thing it did before by saying “This is a Video of You on the Street.” Which is bogus but none the less people click and think they have to download a codec or update their Flash. Social Engineering is on the rise and will be taken seriously. You should read the full report from Trend on what it does but you also should have an anti-virus and Firewall installed to prevent this from happening in the first place. The only true way of preventing this is not to be fooled, you should NEVER Download from a site you don’t know or trust. See all the Facebook articles for more information.

A Sneak Peak at the A600 3G Broadband Cricket Card

PaulMarch 2, 2009

So I was doing a little research and found this nugget from my Affiliates Network:

Features:

Removable Memory Format: microSD
Storage Capacity External memory up to 4GB
Text Messaging Yes
Contact Directory Yes
Language English/Spanish

Wireless Capabilities:

Technology CDMA
Mode Tri-Band
Data Transfer Speed 3G (EVDO Rev 0, Rev A) and 1x
USB Broadband Modem (A600) Looks interesting, and I am thinking this will be the next thing the company will start Advertising for. Right now though, it cost 119$ with a 50$ Mail in Rebate and you spend 69$. With a CDMA only USB Card like the UM100, you know the speed of that. Now According to Wikipedia for 3G and I’ll quote:

Thus users sold 3G service may not be able to point to a standard and say that the speeds it specifies are not being met. While stating in commentary that “it is expected that IMT-2000 will provide higher transmission rates: a minimum speed of 2Mbit/s and maximum of 14.4Mbit/s for stationary users, and 348 kbit/s in a moving vehicle,”

Now this is a much improved speed and I will be testing this in the future but for right now it is untested. I’ll have another article in the coming months about this. I also like the look of this but haven’t seen it first hand. The other thing I like is the the 4 Gigabytes of MicroSD memory. [intlink id=”3171″ type=”post”]I can see a whole range of useful programs you can install on the USB and make it Portable to a point[/intlink]. I’ll improve on that later on once I play around with what you can have on the card and what you have to have to use the USB modem. The Modem supports Windows 2000 through Windows Vista 64 Bit, also Supports Macintosh.

More to Come!! (Check out the UM100 Review)

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And the Oscar goes to . . . Not these guys!

PaulFebruary 23, 2009

Sans Internet Storm is reporting on Anti-virus Scareware tactic. I’ll quote from them:

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ISC reader Gary wrote in to let us know that searching for “oscar presenters” and “oscar winners” with Google brings up a prominently ranked result on a web server in Poland, on a subdomain of “beepl”, which – surprise, surprise – includes a malicious JavaScript. The end result currently seems to reside on stabilitytracewebcom, and is yet another incarnation of the “Fake Anti-Virus Program” malware that we have covered repeatedly. Watch out, the EXE has a meager 6/39 on Virustotal.
[Via Sans]

I did my own research and it is true they are at least 3 sites with the .pl Domain that are used to send you to these fake sites. You should consider checking your system for possible viruses if you been to these sites and are worried. You should also report any site like this to Phishtank to fight this type of scare tactics. Please remember if you are worried about your system this is the best time to install software to prevent these types of scare tactics. Remember you don’t always have to buy software to be safe. There are free anti-virus and Firewall solutions at your fingertips, use them well. It is also a good idea to make sure you have the latest updates from Microsoft while your at it.