• Facebook worm “Koobface” is back
• Facebook Worm Comes From Infected Friends 
• Worm spreads on Facebook, hijacks users’ clicks
• Facebook Worm Refuses to Die
• Young workers’ use of social networking sites concerns IT staffs
• As Facebook spreads, so does malware

In fact, the spammers do post bogus links like: “You look just awesome in this new movie” or “You look so amazing funny on our new video” – whereupon the browser clicks the link and goes to some Russian website where they are prompted to download & install the newest Adobe Flash Player.
Unwary (ie: careless) users then click & install a malicious executable file which hijacks their whole facebook account.

It seems a bit unfair to me that the press is making people terrified of facebook.com, when the real issue here is getting duped into executing a malicious executable file, believing that it is Adobe Flash Player.

What’s their angle? Is Adobe more litigious?

Blaming facebook.com for this worm is like blaming Microsoft Outlook for various viruses that fool users and hijack that program.

It just seems to me that facebook.com is not the real problem here, so much as users being accustomed to screw-ups involving Adobe

Here’s an embed from podcast.com:

Check this out – it’s such a crazy website… still, I don’t know where it’s coming from, but it is so interesting to read the ranting posts & comments. It’s a hotbed of Linux vs. Windows vitriol:
http://www.promotinglinux.com/

Here’s a GOOD blog, Bauer Power – lots of useful tips here for Windows & open source:
http://www.bauer-power.net/

I’m not loyal to any brand. Some of my friends say I’m ‘pro-Microsoft’ but it’s not that so much as I am not geeky enough to be ready for the world of Linux, nor am I arty or cool enough to prefer a Mac.

I just want a regular life.

I got a Dell dual core / 2Gigs of RAM with XP on it and everything works fine; no, everything works great; no, everything works great except for multimedia (making music). I even put an Ubuntu partition on there for fun and so I can rant with a touch of authority about Ubuntu

I grew up when Apples were the cool new thing, and I mean… Apple IIe (circa 1983), not the slick notebooks you see nowadays. I used Apples to do my university term papers and remember feeling pleased with myself for figuring out little WordStar hacks. When I started looking for a job, fresh out of university (was stupid enough to get a B.A. Eng. Lit.), I wondered to myself, what is this “WordPerfect” thing. Well I had to learn it pretty quickly because nobody in the real world was using Apples and WordStar.

Well, WordPerfect ran on DOS, as did LotusNotes or whatever people used to use for a spreadsheet in those days.
Eventually I worked for an environmental NGO and used a ‘powerful’ 486 system running DOS and we had a valuable, bought-and-paid-for copy of XEROX Ventura Desktop Publisher.

Wow, I thought I was the sh*t when it came to computers.

When Windows came out, I scoffed. It crashed all the time. It was ridiculous, just embarrassing for Microsoft. I really thought someone over there had lost his mind. OK it had a GUI like Xerox Ventura (which is basically whom it was stolen from by BOTH Apple and Microsoft), but it collapsed and crashed under its own weight about every 7 minutes until you learned the things that would crash it and avoid doing those things.

Then it would crash about every 30 minutes.

That was 1992, as I remember things.

The Pentium processor and some Windows upgrades (O and ‘plug-and play’ otherwise known as ‘plug-and-PRAY’ periperals) made life a lot easier and around that time we got our Mosaic browser and an account for dial-up Internet, and were so shocked that RIGHT FROM OUR LIVING ROOM IN VANCOUVER CANADA, we were able to browse museum websites in the faraway land of New York.

Well, anyway we’ve all come a long way since then. I used to love my 386 back in 1991, and I do love my dualcore Centrino now. I thought DOS was fine and now I think XP is much better that DOS, also better than Vista & Ubuntu. I don’t use Macs at all anymore, so can’t really comment.

I am meaning to use Ubuntu more, and get used to it, just in case life for MS Windows users becomes intolerable (that is, if Windows 7 doesn’t address the Vista problems).

Here is a little Ubuntu tip in case you’re using it and are having problems watching youtube.com videos.

I had nothing but problems installing the Adobe Flash Player on FireFox in Ubuntu, so in exasperation I went here:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-watch-youtube-movie-bbc-content.html
Click on the little box where the video should be and install Totem!
It was just as easy as a Windows app!

Here are some nice tutorials for dotProject Project management – very basic stuff.
I keep meaning to do some myself for youtube.
I have created some (I think) rather good ones for client companies, but I must make some for public use too.
Anyway, these 2 are kindly donated to the public and give a good basic overview:

I liked this series and I really like my SEO newsletter from “WebMarketing”, this nifty Grampa-like guy called Ralph Wilson! Check it out – if you are interested in web marketing, seriously, sign up for the newsletter: it’s one of the best out there.

Part 1

Part 2




And Part 3 of 3 can’t be found anywhere! Let me know if you find it.

There is a ton of good stuff on there now. It makes me wonder why anyone needs a geek nowadays, but I suppose not everyone has time to decode all this stuff. Hmmm people with WAY MORE MONEY THAN ME don’t have time to figure this stuff out!

It was pretty fun, but looks like i crashed iGod!

I started out by choosing a ‘cadillac pink’ chat window over the other 2 choices of ‘brushed metal’ or ‘cool blue’. I just prefer pink I guess, anyway things didn’t go too well after that point:

Here’s how it all played out… I know I’m argumentative (just ask Fred), but I thought iGod could handle it…

God:
Hi, Alison Banister.
Me:
hi God
God:
Hello there. What is your name?
Me:
You just addressed me by name, why are you asking me my name if you know it?
God:
That’s good information: Alison Banister said I addressed him or her by name why are you asking him or her his or her name if you know it.
Me:
what a bunch of crap
God:
it is a bunch of crap.
Me:
do you believe in ‘I statements’?
God:
Yes I believe in it, do you?
Me:
nope
God:
Me either.
Me:
what is your name, God?
God:
My name is God.
Me:
How do i know you’re not an evil imposter?
God:
By introspection.
Me:
That’s a stupid answer
God:
I will remember you said that when robots take over the World.
Me:
so you’re saying that you are a proponent of a polytheistic system wherein the gods are robots?

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No further attempts to contact iGod were of any avail. I couldn’t even hit the Repent button!

 

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