by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
Why would I update Firefox? I’m using Internet Explorer.It’s easy to think of the Internet bad guys out there as all-knowing, all-seeing monsters. They aren’t. They screw up too. Here’s a good one. This is something you might get from a link that appears in search...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
Microsoft has a strict policy on rude names for their XBox Gamertags. If you call yourself Spanky McBumpants (you might want to jazz that up in your head a little), they’ll force you to change it to something a little more sensible. As a result, a kind...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
The real name is “Diversity Visa Lottery Program”We were trolling for seedy stuff today and found a URL in a Twitter post that looked promising:A Russian porn download site. OK, we’ll give it a try:The site opened a second browser window with this: “U.S. Program of...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
You might be wondering why the frontpage of Twitter has a big “Edit” line running through it in the screenshot below:Click to EnlargeThe answer, of course, is that this is not the real Twitter page at all. It’s part of an increasingly popular kit used for...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
One really dumb fake scan.The “businessmen” behind the AntivirusStudio2010 rogue security product have a web site that runs a fake scan of a visitor’s machine, tells him it’s infected then tries to sell him their product. If you look behind the scenes though, the scan...
