Well PCButts is making a saddened attempt to discredit me. He says I'm a troll because I am trying to get him to come out from behind the relatively appropriate handle of PCButts1. Of course we all know him more to be PCButtWipe1.
Why? Because in my opinion he is a lying, lowlife scumbag Internet softwaret thief. He even wrote a post about me back in December, but saw better to remove it, but I have a Google cache of the post. [Read Discuss]
Well it looks like the scumbags over at Zango are at it again. Teen porn is their new frontier. This is one heck of a way to start off the New Year. [Read Discuss Here]
Thanks to some info from the Sunbelt blog, this website, which was recently sold for $500,000 has an app associated with it that is less than dependable to say the least, SpywareBot.
Need to purchase to remove 3 mild registry entries, and over look dozens of malware files stored in a regular folder. Can you say 'scam'? Sure ya can, say it with me now.......[Read | Discuss Here]
Scam sites have been on the upswing as of late, so I decided to make a sticky thread just to deal with them. They include sites that try to trick users into downloading some sort of POS anti-spyware (rogues)along with sites that try to goad users into downloading a codec file to view a particular video clip. Nine times out of ten, the user gets infected with Zlob\SmithFraud infections or goodness knows what else is lurking. [Read Discuss Here]
Three new anti-spyware rogues and two more fake codec sites appear for the week, guess the malware scumbags were busy getting ready for a holiday push. [Read|Discuss Here]
PCButts, Internet thief, liar and overall scumbag has now laid claim that he is an MS MVP. On the SiteAdvisor review page he claims he is and has been for 4 years. I think not. [ReadDiscuss Here]
Well today has brought a few very interesting reads about spam\phish. One on how it's not going away, one about a new start up that wants to charge for access to your email account and another about a phishing group which may be responsible for nearly one third of all phish messages sent. Read and Discuss Here
MS has readied a few critical updates for the month of December, go and get yours!! See Here
Phishers use machine gun method to hit-and-run victims with record number of spoofed domains. Read and Discuss Here
Prompted by a comment on her blog by a Patchou troll, Sandi Hardmeier, noted MS MVP gives Mess Plus! another scathing review.
Read and Discuss Here
Well it was yet another Paperghost\Zango bust fest. PG finds a profile on MySpace using an exploit which leads to a Zango site pushing Zango content vids. And of course you need to view the vids with the ever present Zango crapware. This stuff is almost as bad as the
codecs I wrote about last week. Read and Discuss Here
This week was my first article to appear in the Dave's Computing Tips newsletter. Check The Forum
And we broke the record for the most ever users online too. Read and Discuss
Well Paperghost and the team at SpywareGuide have stumbled upon a scam on MySpace to infect users with a variant of Zlob\SmithFraud. Nice. MySpace users beware of any profiles wanting you to download anything to view something. Read and Discuss Here
Two great anti-spyware legends, Ben Edelman and Eric Howes team up to show proof that Zango has not lived up to their recent agreement with the FTC. Go figure.
And to think Zango has always been so candid and honest in all their other dealings when caught using less than ethical tactics. NOT!!
We have a couple of interesting threads in the forum. One about the latest trend by malware authors to get users to malware sites. Look for this to take off.
Another shows a Flickr slide show put together by Sunbelt Software of all the fake security warnings generated by a ton of rogue anti-spyware apps. Read more about both the aforementioned in the Countermeasures News Forum
Over in the Phishing and Spam Forum forum see what could happen when you open an E-Card and it's packed full of nasties.
Well this time the target of Mr. Buttwipe is yet another security tool, created by an MS MVP. And of course he got caught due to his own stupidity.
Gotta love it when morons try to take credit for something and screw up. Read More Here
It seems the Gromozon authors are a little annoyed at the good folks over at Prevx. They have now coded their Gromozon malware with a false claim that the developers at Prevx, are the authors of the infectious code, instead of the ones who have created a tool to remove it. Read More Here
Some new items in the Countermeasures forum today:
The FTC has finally gotten those scumbags at Zango\180Solutions to 'admit' they are lowlife scumbags, and used less than ethical means of delivering their software. Of course paying 3 million dollars and stopping delivery of the software, in their eyes is no admission of guilt, now is it?? ROCK ON FTC!! Read More Here
BillP, creator of WinPatrol has decided to offer his users, or any users for that matter a trial version of their PLUS version. This is an excellent time to see just how well the program works and for a one time fee, you can't beat it. Read More Here
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