Latest News & Info From Forums Dec 31

Latest Security & News Info

• Friendster Phish Making Rounds
• AVG Anti-Spyware Discontinued
• Google Calendar Phish Scam
• Web Browser Flaw Exposes Secure Sites
• Fake X-Mas eCards.....Again
• MS Cleans Rogues Off 400K PCs
• Innovative Marketing Found In Contempt
• 1 Million Ways To Infect Your PC
• US Still Leader Of Malware Sources
• Bug Found In Online Scanner
• Net Takes Over Newspaper As Source
• Castle Cops Shuts Down

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Latest News & Info From The Forums-Dec 17

Latest Security & News Info

• FTC Investigating Innovative Marketing
• F-Secures Health Check

Recent Forum Discussions

• Which Is Safer, IE or Firefox?
• 5 Things About Digital TV Switch
• YaHoo! IM: Serving Ads In Chat Window

Vista Install Update

Ok, so far so good. Vista is running fine and I'm working on personalizations and tweaks.

If there's one thing that bugs me is that I cannot seem to figure out how to keep the cool Vista start button\black menu and change the Windows color. The oh-so-pretty blue just don't cut it. If you know where I can either find that tweak or download some freebie, drop me a comment or reply in the forums.

My news reader, Great News works great from the XP partition.

I've gotten my MailWasherPro all set up but I still need to work out what I'm doing wrong with Outlook. Steven provided me some steps to open it from the Vista drive but I can't seem to get it just right yet.

I also need to see if that can be done with Expression Blend.

I've installed Online Armour Firewall, so we'll see how that works. For av I'll likely go with one of the freebies, not sure which one yet tho.

So today will be spent working out those things and other settings. Thanksfully Jr has a playdate with a pal after school, so I'll have a good amount of time to do all this.

Reinstalling Vista Ultimate Today

Well, after a year and a half, I've decided to re-install Visat Ultimate, this time w\SP1 and begin using it more. I've been shying away from for it for too long. And now it seems pretty much everyone has a Vista capable version of thier software.

So I'll keep everyone abreast of how things go.

Latest News & Info From The Forums-Dec 10

Latest Security & News Info

• Anatomy Of A Spam Business
• 0-Day IE Flaw Being Exploited
• FTC Investigating Innovative Marketing

Latest News & Info From The Forums-Dec 9 - Pt III

Latest Security & News Info

• Huge Security Flaw @ Facebook
• SpywareInfo.com Bought by Badguys

Time To Exclude The Bad ISPs

In recent months, three questionable Internet service providers — EstDomains, Atrivo, and McColo — were effectively taken offline resulting in noticeable drops of malware and spam.

It is hard to argue that such takedowns, which took the command-and-control servers for several major botnets offline, would not benefit everyone who uses the Internet. Estimates of the decrease in spam from the McColo takedown ran from 40 to 80 percent, even if it lasted only for a short time. More importantly, as bulletproof hosting providers drop bad actors from their client list, the cost of hosting the command-and-control servers go up. Increasing the transaction costs to commit cybercrime is one of the best strategies to reduce it.

Time to Exclude Bad ISPs

Latest News & Info From The Forums-Dec 9, Part II

Latest Security & News Info

• McAfee Virtual Security Report
• Stop Blaming Microsoft For Security Woes

Latest News & Info From The Forums-Dec 9

Latest Security & News Info

• Downloader Trojan Exploits IE7
• Next Gen Of Cyber Threats
• Despite Botnet Shutdowns, Hackers Winning

Latest News & Info From The Forums-Dec 8

Latest Security & News Info

• More Fake Microsoft Spam
• Google Testing ActiveX Alternative

Latest News & Info From The Forums-Dec 8

Latest Security & News Info

• More Fake Bank Demo Spam
• SpamBot From McColo Shutdown Reborn
• Spammers Sidestep SMTP
• Russian Mafia Biggest Cyber Syndicate
• Most Common Attack Vectors
• New Forum Anti-Spam Code Topics

Latest News & Info From The Forums-Dec 6

Latest Security & News Info

• Thieves Winning Online War
• BitDefender Top 10 For Nov.
• ClassmatesDotCom Fast Flux Malware
• 2008: Year Of Cyber Criminal Innovation



Recent Forum Discussions

• Dell: Want XP? Cough Up $150

Latest News & Info From The Forums-Dec 3

Latest Security & News Info

• New Password Stealer In Wild
• Infection Redirects Users From temerc & hphosts
• The Day The Net Died

Latest News & Info From The Forums-Dec 2

Latest Security & News Info

• Rock-Phishing In December
• Trusted Source Bought By McAfee
• CBS Sub Domain iFramed
• Atrivo, McColo & Now Ecatel
• Phish From Big Firms Contains Malware



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