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Category Archive for 'Spam, Phish, Viruses and Hackers'

The hacker was the same as last week.
Whois Reports the following:
Domain Name: CDPUVBHFZZ.COM
Registrar: BIZCN.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.bizcn.com
Referral URL: http://www.bizcn.com
Name Server: NS1.CHBDVRNFAG.COM
Name Server: NS2.CHBDVRNFAG.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 31-mar-2008
Creation Date: 31-mar-2008
Expiration Date: 31-mar-2009
>>> Last update of whois database: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:34:49 UTC <<<
Domain name: cdpuvbhfzz.com
Registrant Contact:
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Mark Arnold arnold@google.com
+13.193387549 fax: +13.193387549
201 East Benton Street
Iowa City KY [...]

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If you are a Windows user and also like gadgets, you might want to read THIS ARTICLE.
I have seen some of the digital picture frames in stores here in David.

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On my morning journey through the Internet, I happened to see a press release put out by EDS on Cyber Security tips. Following is their list:

Know the threat. The online world is a dangerous place. Just like any city or town, there are “good” neighborhoods and “bad” ones. Likewise, the Internet community has an overwhelming [...]

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Here is a new article on the Storm Worm virus. It is “lobotomizing” installed anti-virus software. This virus is apparently also infecting several P2P programs such as BearShare and eDonkey.
If you haven’t yet converted to Apple OSX or better still, UBUNTU, then you need to be cautious out there in cyberspace.

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Those of you using the Windows environment to read Chiriquí Chatter need to be aware of a new threat that is invading the Windows world. Just when you thought it was safe to view emails containing PDFs. Luckily for me, I am not facing that particular problem.

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I think I have written this before, but maybe it would be worth writing again. I allow all comments to be posted unless the comment is spam. If the comment is related to the post, it will be posted. WordPress has a built in SPAM detection engine and I also use a “Bad Behavior” plug [...]

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If you are not familiar with the term splog, it stands for spam blog. Splogs rarely, if ever, contain anything created by the splog’s owner. In my opinion PanamaForum.com is a splog. It has a section called Panama Blog Watch where all the entries just happen to be from Chiriquí Chatter.
Granted, this is a variation [...]

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Chiriquí Chatter was hacked about 10:00 PM last night by a Russian hacker. If you accessed the site after that time it is possible that the hacked program downloaded a virus to your PC.
You should run a complete virus scan on your PC, if you accessed this site between 10:00 PM last night and 1:00 [...]

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Over the last month or so I have been testing both FireFox and Internet Explorer 7 on phishing emails I receive each day. I know they are bad emails when I receive them because they are sent to an email address I never use for communications with companies.
Up until yesterday, both FireFox and IE7 have [...]

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I have recently started receiving an enormous number of spam emails that are promoting stock. I have decided to identify the stock name and stock symbol. If they have to resort to spam to generate sales, they have to be a sorry company. “Pump and Dump” individuals that want to make a quick profit typically [...]

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Bad Behavior has blocked 1726 access attempts in the last 7 days.