30 March, 2007

New virus hiding as IE7 download

I'm just trying to spread the word here - I don't do this much, but I believe this to be very important

Trojan masquerades as IE 7 downloads by ZDNet's Ryan Naraine -- Spammers are using fake Internet Explorer 7 (Beta 2) downloads to lure Windows users into downloading a nasty backdoor Trojan. The fake downloads are part of a massive spam run that includes an official-looking graphic (see image below) linked to Web sites that auto-launch an executable named "ie7.exe." A copy of this spam that landed in my [...]




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29 March, 2007

New blog directory - sign up early!

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It looks like the Google PageRank system has updated the rankings of pages and blogs. As stated here, my other blog, the one no one has visited (as far as I can tell by the analytics tools) used to have a PageRank of two. Now it has a PageRank of zero. I don't understand, but I have to accept it.

In the quest to up page ranks and get a better PageRank, Alexa score (more on that in another post) and Technorati Rank, I believe it is advisable to get the blogs out there as many places and as oftem as possible. That is where HighFivez.com comes into play. They are yet another blog listing service. One can submit their blogs, then people on the site can rank them. Giving a positive review of blogs and posts (a "high five") or a negative review (a "pound").

Mayhaps I'm a bit out of touch with the lingo of the kids these days, because while I understand what a high five is, I have no idea what a pound is. Signing up at HighFivez.com is completely painless. The worst part was waiting the three or four minutes it took for their email checker to email me a message with a verification link to click on. From then on out, adding blog was simple and straight to the point.

The site appears to be new, there aren't a ton of people signed up yet, so if one hurries, they could get a good position where their blog(s) won't get lost in the shuffle of millions of other (but far less intersting) blogs than yours!