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Thank you for the articles. I recall using with a pc in 1997, a malware program that had the servers located in Germany.....the name escapes me memory cells. I recall sending a few dollars to support the free program. AH-HA, incoming brain cell alert...the program was SPYBOT.
Anyway, on a related note....computer cookies, tracking programs and related. We currently use McAfee and the Malware program Chip mentioned in another post...MBAM. The pc, of course; always has too much Adware stuff and periodically finds a Trojan of some form.
I do find a curious situation, in when first using Google on a given day, that it displays the weather for NYC; and when searching whatever, will place search results that always contain store locations and related for Manhattan. No sure what that is all about; but it is okay with me if "it" thinks I live in Manhattan; knowing that Google is able to build an excellent profile on users based upon search requests.
As for computers, today I am a user; versus the "older" days when I was a fixer. I still attempt to keep somewhat atune to changes, but not so much as the wayback days.
Although trained and working with electro/mechanical devices and sometimes computer driven and the work having provided a decent wage; I never developed the overwhelming passion for early exposure to programming and ic chips. I will say that the early (1967) exposure to the new wave of electronics allowed for insight that made money for this house via investments in stocks.
This link is for the earliest "pc" which I had to program and repair. This is a front panel only image and I am sure there is more to found for Computer Automation and the LS-2 series. Five front panel registers of 16 bits each with which to hand load each bit for a given start up program, followed by the operating system being loaded via an ASR-33 teleprinter using a paper tape feeder. The base system was magnetic core type memory that totalled 16K, with a maximum of 32K with an additonal board. A real rocket ship !
Thank you for the update. Although this house (probably the last one in MI) does not use Facebook; it is easy to understand attacks at such a site with its gigantic user base. I will pass along this info/link to the 5 million folks I know who are users of Facebook.
I do use FB quite a bit. My internet safety and privacy tools---used very often for cleaning and maintenance purposes, include: -AVG Free edition. -Malwarebytes (free) -Spyware Blaster (free) -SUPERAntispyware (free) -CCleaner (free)
All of these tools offer a paid/premium version. The only difference is that I must update MANUALLY. It's been a helluva long time since I was infected with much of anything. I run them to start the day or at the end of the day. Interesting to look at the "reports" generated. All kinds of stuff works in the background, planting itself. I suppose I mean to say that some bad stuff DOES get in, but these tools remove it before any harm is done.
When signing up for an email address or in order to create a User Name to sign-into any websites, what I provide is all fictional. I have a "dedicated" email box to use in order to receive "confirmation" messages from all those places.
Even Jiffy Lube, JEEZ: who needs their junk mail? They screw up every time I go in there, anyway. They know me as John Jones from 123 Anywhere Street in Goldenrod, FL. 32733. At least the town and the zip match.
One aspect of opt-in/opt-out that I have never been sure about. Suppose I agree to let company A to collect certain data because they have a strict privacy policy & excellent reputation for integrity. Time passes, and A is acquired by B, which is quite different. What happens now to A's (valuable) data banks? Suppose B says "We have a different policy", what then? What control do you have then if you don't like B? It has always seemed to me that out into the future none of these promises mean anything anyway. The best solution is to keep as much to yourself as possible, and be as opaque as possible when you can't.
Privacy tools too confusing for most users? (Above.) Why am I not surprised? If there are legal requirements to be covered, the scumbags do it in a way that makes using such "tools" NEVER obvious, clean and easy. It's all very deliberate. Parasites.
Reply to @catch22: "Spybot Search & Destroy" is a good software. But I would rather call it anti-malware software rather than malware. Malware is bad. Anti-malware is good.
BTW, MalwareBytes is a better anti-malware software these days.
Reply to @Accipiter: "Since it doesn't have any executable files, no antivirus program is designed to look for it." What kind of spooge-licking scumbag sits around, deliberately creating this crap? And when a Facebook user clicks on an ad, the spoof program gives some sort of credit for the click to the malware host..... Sounds to me like I'm living in some combination of Orwell's "1984" and an evil, science-fiction Alice-in-Wonderland-on LSD-world..............But that Facebook user's FIRST mistake is to click on ANY ad in Facebook. All that stuff hits me as just bothersome noise, anyway. ..... I'm glad I have (and USE) three OTHER security sweepers, besides my AVG antivirus program.
So a few minutes ago when I tried to access this website I got a black page with red writing that said: Server hacked by Tigerm@te, Bangladeshi hacker.... I tried several times. It went away after just a few minutes.
Yep, here, MFO. If you want to see a mirror of it, you can find it at the link right now. I imagine the link mirror will disappear now that it is fixed.
Reply to @Anna: It looks OK to me now. I mostly directly jump to the forum via bookmark and visit home page when updated for monthly commentary or to link over to Amazon.
Hi, guys. Sorry about the delayed response - chip and I were both out of town on business for the past four or five days, and so were a bit less vigilant. Her guess is that our site was not hacked but that our server (that is, the folks who host us) probably was. David
on a low-bandwidth connection it is pretty much impossible to read the Atlantic's pages and a few other sites. I used adblock plus to block twitter.com, facebook.com, and scorecardresearch.com and was actually able to read the article.
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http://www.scmagazineus.com/internet-privacy-tools-too-confusing-for-most-users/article/215869/
Thank you for the articles. I recall using with a pc in 1997, a malware program that had the servers located in Germany.....the name escapes me memory cells. I recall sending a few dollars to support the free program. AH-HA, incoming brain cell alert...the program was SPYBOT.
Anyway, on a related note....computer cookies, tracking programs and related.
We currently use McAfee and the Malware program Chip mentioned in another post...MBAM. The pc, of course; always has too much Adware stuff and periodically finds a Trojan of some form.
I do find a curious situation, in when first using Google on a given day, that it displays the weather for NYC; and when searching whatever, will place search results that always contain store locations and related for Manhattan. No sure what that is all about; but it is okay with me if "it" thinks I live in Manhattan; knowing that Google is able to build an excellent profile on users based upon search requests.
As for computers, today I am a user; versus the "older" days when I was a fixer. I still attempt to keep somewhat atune to changes, but not so much as the wayback days.
Although trained and working with electro/mechanical devices and sometimes computer driven and the work having provided a decent wage; I never developed the overwhelming passion for early exposure to programming and ic chips. I will say that the early (1967) exposure to the new wave of electronics allowed for insight that made money for this house via investments in stocks.
This link is for the earliest "pc" which I had to program and repair. This is a front panel only image and I am sure there is more to found for Computer Automation and the LS-2 series. Five front panel registers of 16 bits each with which to hand load each bit for a given start up program, followed by the operating system being loaded via an ASR-33 teleprinter using a paper tape feeder. The base system was magnetic core type memory that totalled 16K, with a maximum of 32K with an additonal board. A real rocket ship !
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=computer+automation+lsi+2&hl=en&gbv=2&biw=1237&bih=748&tbm=isch&tbnid=PFmQw0Q2qH9B0M:&imgrefurl=http://www.simulogics.com/museum.htm&docid=sVX5nnQMIQQcwM&imgurl=http://www.simulogics.com/museum/CAlsi11_1.JPG&w=576&h=436&ei=qN-1Tru3Gsmq2QXz0bHNDw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=440&vpy=278&dur=190&hovh=195&hovw=258&tx=151&ty=104&sig=105754999995524835912&page=1&tbnh=130&tbnw=162&start=0&ndsp=26&ved=1t:429,r:8,s:0
Take care and thanks for jogging the memory cells.
Catch
Ramnit Worm Goes After Facebook Credentials
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/247337/ramnit_worm_goes_after_facebook_credentials.html
A pervasive worm has expanded its reach to now steal login and password details for Facebook users,....
Thank you for the update. Although this house (probably the last one in MI) does not use Facebook; it is easy to understand attacks at such a site with its gigantic user base.
I will pass along this info/link to the 5 million folks I know who are users of Facebook.
Take care of you and yours,
Catch
-AVG Free edition.
-Malwarebytes (free)
-Spyware Blaster (free)
-SUPERAntispyware (free)
-CCleaner (free)
All of these tools offer a paid/premium version. The only difference is that I must update MANUALLY. It's been a helluva long time since I was infected with much of anything. I run them to start the day or at the end of the day. Interesting to look at the "reports" generated. All kinds of stuff works in the background, planting itself. I suppose I mean to say that some bad stuff DOES get in, but these tools remove it before any harm is done.
When signing up for an email address or in order to create a User Name to sign-into any websites, what I provide is all fictional. I have a "dedicated" email box to use in order to receive "confirmation" messages from all those places.
Even Jiffy Lube, JEEZ: who needs their junk mail? They screw up every time I go in there, anyway. They know me as John Jones from 123 Anywhere Street in Goldenrod, FL. 32733. At least the town and the zip match.
No facebook here either. Still living in the day of these computer games - Adventure and Zork
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400868,00.asp
How to Opt Out of Google's New Privacy Policy (Sort Of)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400662,00.asp
Google To Ramp Up Online Tracking
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/28/147553722/google-to-ramp-up-online-tracking?ps=rs
Users Can Control What Google Knows About Them
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/29/147617359/users-can-control-what-google-knows-about-them?ps=rs
Google And Privacy: Is It Time To Give Up?
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/29/147643243/google-wins-hes-giving-up-on-privacy?ps=cprs
How To Adjust Your Privacy Settings, Before Google's Big Shift
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/02/29/147596859/how-to-adjust-your-privacy-settings-before-googles-big-shift?ps=cprs
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/24/147356632/weaving-around-web-privacy-controls
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/22/147189154/how-companies-are-defining-your-worth-online
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227351/Cross_browser_worm_spreads_via_Facebook_security_experts_warn?taxonomyId=17
BTW, MalwareBytes is a better anti-malware software these days.
"Since it doesn't have any executable files, no antivirus program is designed to look for it." What kind of spooge-licking scumbag sits around, deliberately creating this crap? And when a Facebook user clicks on an ad, the spoof program gives some sort of credit for the click to the malware host..... Sounds to me like I'm living in some combination of Orwell's "1984" and an evil, science-fiction Alice-in-Wonderland-on LSD-world..............But that Facebook user's FIRST mistake is to click on ANY ad in Facebook. All that stuff hits me as just bothersome noise, anyway. ..... I'm glad I have (and USE) three OTHER security sweepers, besides my AVG antivirus program.
Yep, here, MFO. If you want to see a mirror of it, you can find it at the link right now. I imagine the link mirror will disappear now that it is fixed.
http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/17707640
One of several related stories from Sept. 2011.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/700-000-InMotion-Websites-Hacked-by-TiGER-M-TE-223607.shtml
And yet ⇒ more on this.
Apple goes public with iOS security features
http://www.scmagazine.com/apple-goes-public-with-ios-security-features/article/243935/
Small banking Trojan poses major risk Size doesn't matter, after all
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/04/small_banking_trojan/
Understanding cyberspace is key to defending against digital attacks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/understanding-cyberspace-is-key-to-defending-against-digital-attacks/2012/06/02/gJQAsIr19U_story.html
⇒ Flame virus used world-class cryptographic attack
http://vrt-blog.snort.org/2012/06/compromised-wordpress-blogs-phishers.html
http://blog.trendmicro.com/compromised-wordpress-sites-drive-users-to-blackhole-exploit-kit
Thank you.
Take care,
Catch
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/17/161290236/op-ed-its-time-to-fix-our-broken-password-system
the-password-fallacy-why-our-security-system-is-broken-and-how-to-fix-it
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2012/09/the-password-fallacy-why-our-security-system-is-broken-and-how-to-fix-it/262155/
on a low-bandwidth connection it is pretty much impossible to read the Atlantic's pages and a few other sites. I used adblock plus to block twitter.com, facebook.com, and scorecardresearch.com and was actually able to read the article.