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:

twiterfindpeople

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.

Dear Friend Spam Emails from Yahoo

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The email from our[intlink id=”3233″ type=”post”] old friend has come back[/intlink] into now compromising Yahoo accounts by sending out this email:

Dear friend:
What are u doing these days?I am going to recommend a Eshop to you.Yesterday I found a web of a large trading company from China,which is an agent of all the well-known digital product factories,and facing to both wholesalers, retailsalers,and personal customer all over the world. They export all kinds of digital products and offer really competitive and reasonable price and high quality goods for their clients,so i think you will make a big profit if you did business with them.And they promise they will provide the best after-sales-service.If you are interested to do business with them,in my opinion, you can make a trial order to test that.
Their Web address: www.nekcn.com

In what seems to be the way of this advertisment company, it seems they have been doing what they did with Hotmail.  Deleting your contact list and emailing your friends with this message.  Now I am thinking it is being done by them [intlink id=”2660″ type=”post”]Phishing for the password and Account name[/intlink], they probably set up an web page to look like Hotmail or Yahoo.  One thing to remember to do is check to see that you address bar looks like this:

yahoomailloginYou should make sure you see the “https”, meaning that is a encrypted login and also make sure you see either Mail.yahoo.com or Login.yahoo.com.  If you see anything else included in your the screen like maybe a .ru or .pl then you aren’t logining into the true yahoo account.  Obviously the website shouldn’t be trusted until they advertise the right way, and find ways to advertise online other than spam.  If you get an email saying you need to do something with your Hotmail account or yahoo mail account you should not click any links and go to the site manually to investigate the problem.  You should never click links in email that you don’t know where they are going.  Thanks to Jazzcorner for Alerting me that they have started to do this with yahoo.  I am betting the next one will be for Google Mail, or Gmail as some will call it. It wouldn’t hurt to have a [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]firewall and Anti-virus[/intlink] and also check your system out just to be sure.