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Spam at its best

– November 20, 2009Posted in: Internet
Spam at its best

I have an e-mail address I use exclusively for spam.  I visit a site, they force me to login in order to do anything, they get this address.  Today I got an e-mail at info@razornylon.com which I have never used for anything, and from now on it will only see my spam folder.  Below is the message:

Dear owner of the adium@razornylon.com mailbox,
You have to change the security mode of your account, from standart to secure. Please change the security mode by using the link below:

http://accounts.razornylon.com.verzzn.co.uk/webmail/settings/noflash.php?mode=standart&id=84821682180119139763927570572924627885997635531797028081890793&email=adium@razornylon.com

For starters, they can’t spell “standard”.  Second they make it look like it came from my own domain.  The one I own, the one they are contacting via the info@razornylon.com account.  Then upon visiting the site (running linux on my laptop) I see that they want to show me something, but I have to install flash first.  Of course they are hosting the exe file, which is how they would get you, but this has to be the lamest attempt I have ever seen.

At least with those fake virus warnings they are targeted at everyone, and sometimes look very convincing.  This message is directed solely at me, a website admin, using my own domain to disguise their own.  Is it maybe possible that a guy who built a particular website is aware that there is no subdomain “accounts”?  Maybe if they sent the e-mail directly to the account in question, but no… they sent it to the info@razornylon.com account.

That said, I am sure there is probably some idiot that will fall for it.  However I can’t imagine the success rate is really all that high.

verzzn.co.uk was registered on Nov 19 to:
Suzanne Mendez
Taylor Street Apt. 22
Wilrijk
2771
Belgium

Through the company http://www.123-reg.co.uk
Hopefully they take appropriate measures before Suzanne finds the one dumb bloke!

How to go to Macworld for FREE

– January 6, 2009Posted in: Computers, San Francisco
How to go to Macworld for FREE

I am not guaranteeing anything.  I am just sharing information on how I was able to attend the expo at Macworld for free.  Based on my experience, I don’t see why it shouldn’t work for everyone.

Visit www.macworldexpo.com and click “Register Today” in the top right corner.  Fill out your information, BE HONEST!  Walking around the expo your badge will be scanned to enter you into contests, sweepstakes, etc.  If you lie, you win nothing!

Upon filling out the form enter the promotion code “RDM11000″ at the top of the form.  This code is reserved for students and educators.  So say you are a student, (everyday is a new lesson, making us all students) and then print off the form with the bar code.

Take the form to the window, they scan it, ID prints they give it too you…, Enjoy! They don’t ask for ID, confirm you are a student, nothing.  Just scan, print, enjoy.

See you there!

(This is just the Expo hall and not the conferences, which security doesn’t check anyones pass for the Expo hall since everyone with something around their neck can enter)

Virus by google?

– November 23, 2008Posted in: Computers
Virus by google?

I have been spending the better half of my day trying to fight the onset of this particular virus.  At first I thought it was some site that I visited as I turned away and looked back to see a terminal window close real fast.  How long it was open or what it did I don’t know.  Since then I have been noticing problems though.

I haven’t been in windows much for the past couple days so it could of apeared at anytime during the last week.  I remember working in the library last week and stepping out to make a phone call which lasted a good 20 minutes, in which I let me classmates use my computer.  20 minutes is a long time to do some damage.  They told me that all they did was check there e-mail and I felt no reason to badger them, but now thinking back them telling me like they did makes them sound very quilty.  On top of that one of them was hispanic, and I found the spanish version of Microsoft’s .NET framework installed on my computer.  I have had no use for this in the past and am sure I would recall installing something like this in the past month since I have installed Ubuntu.

I am not pointing the finger yet, but I am going to raise some hell with someone.  I have a placement test for Math and English tomorrow, plus a group presentation (the reason I am working in windows), as well as some other things all due tomorrow.., and have wasted the entire day chasing a virus.

The odd thing about this virus is that it won’t let me search on google for anything.  All the links are changed to ads for some software or something else.  Fortunately, no porn.  As well as pop-ups every 10 minutes in IE.  I have tried to delete the Iexplore folder, but it just returns.  Bottom line I am about to loose patience and turn homicidal on a particular “friend”.

Internet Speed Test

– November 20, 2008Posted in: Internet
Internet Speed Test

Why MySpace Sucks!

– November 8, 2008Posted in: Internet
Why MySpace Sucks!

I first heard of MySpace a couple years ago and at first I thought it was another file storage site and paid it no attention.  Then came the unencumbered whining from fellow friends and family telling me that I absolutely had to get a MySpace account.

From the start I HATED and LOATHED MySpace!  It seemed that it was an excuse for everyone to have their own piece of the web and design those late 1990 style web sites with the animated graphics that just scrolls for an infinity below the fold, and has absolutely no real content.

Does anyone even view their own MySpace page?  Are they even aware that half of them have a page that is 2 miles long with 800 animated graphics, 50 YouTube videos, and a music player from 10 different sites that are all programmed to play upon load?  I mean seriously, if I am going to look at a web page, I would like a little control over the content.  If there is a song to play, I would like the option of pressing play.  Not spending 5 minutes trying to scroll up and down to look in between cheesy glitter graphics in order to find the music player and press stop.  Yes, you are right, that is your page.  But why do I want to look at it and listen to hardcore rap using the F word and calling each other the N word repeatedly?  If I like that kind of music I am fully capable of finding it on my own.

I still haven’t discovered the purpose of changing the name that goes under your profile picture to a reminder of your upcoming birthday.  Or a shout out to your loved one.  That might be useful information, but now, I have no clue who you are.  Or using your photo album to advertise your political, religious, or sexual affiliations.  Its so convenient when I look at my own page to see a picture of two guys making out, under where it lists my friends.  The scary part is I can’t see there faces and the persons name is “I love my new car”.  I know that my brother is somewhere in the mess but he has changed his name to a redundant statement and is using a picture of himself on top of a mountain in front of the sun making it look like a little green man exiting his space ship.  Which now I wonder, has my brother gone gay?  Or he being abducted by aliens?  Bottom line, I am unable to tell anyone apart, so I am always opening with “Who are you?  Which after the 100th time they are getting annoyed with me for not keeping up.  So now that I don’t know who anyone is, what is the point?

I try to stay on top of things and try to make myself available on every site that is on the web.  But MySpace?  This is goodbye.  Your tacky user pages filled with useless graphics and drowned out by all the ads make it too unbearable for me to endure any more.  Maybe if I could control how much content loads, or just get a quick summary before I download half a million pictures of a kitten smoking a joint.  Maybe it would help if I could just stay logged in, between visits.  Nope, not happening.  So this makes my final word easy to say…, Goodbye MySpace, and too all of you who insist that I view your page, get a clue!

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