by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
Mildly off-topic, but CNET has an article about online retailer Zappos getting into electronics and other products. It’s worth a quick read if you buy a lot online.I do a lot of shopping online, and bar none, Zappos is absolutely, hands-down, the best internet...
by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
Wow, what a cluster f*. Hundreds of thousands of pages, if not over a million.Examples (warning: graphic language):Most of these push videos that push fake codecs.But it’s not just malware. There’s spam-a-plenty:And there’s also splogs pushing malware, not as porn,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
About 171, which we actually updated on 4/7 but I missed posting due to RSA. These are part of the Innovative Marketing/Locus Software group. Link here (pdf). The “secret” path to the online scanner scams for many of these follows the...
by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
BayWords is a new effort by the folks at PirateBay to have an uncensored blog. In their words: “Many blogs are being shut down for uncomfortable thoughts and ideas. We will not do that. Our goal is to protect freedom of speech and your thoughts. As long as you don’t...
by Alex Eckelberry | Apr 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
Some new fake codec and malware sites. IP number followed by URI. 85.255.118.179 swfutility (dot) com (fake codec) 85.255.120.107 flwcoupler (dot) com (fake codec) 85.255.118.213 secureinstruct (dot) com 85.255.116.210 softhomepage (dot) com 85.255.118.214...
