<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:18:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>spyware</category><category>virus</category><category>worm</category><category>SRI International</category><category>Windows updates</category><category>antivirus</category><category>scareware</category><category>Conficker</category><title>TECH NEWS, INFORMATION</title><description>THIS IS THE PLACE FOR TECH NEWS, INFORMATION AND 
            HELP FOR LIFE'S PC PROBLEMS</description><link>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Shawn M Clarady)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>94</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/tech_news_information" /><feedburner:info uri="tech_news_information" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-7682954635582198181</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-24T13:18:42.048-05:00</atom:updated><title>Is the AnonyUpload file-sharing website for real? | Naked Security</title><description>&lt;a href="http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/24/anonyupload-website-file-sharing/?utm_source=facebook&amp;amp;utm_medium=status+message&amp;amp;utm_campaign=naked+security"&gt;Is the AnonyUpload file-sharing website for real? | Naked Security&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var addthis_pub="4a158b925606c0dd";&lt;/script&gt;&lt;a expr:name='data:post.title' expr:id='data:post.url' onmouseover='return addthis_open(this, "", this.id, this.name);' onmouseout='addthis_close()' onclick='return addthis_sendto()'&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/200/addthis_widget.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tech_news_information"&gt;RSS Feed&lt;/a&gt;Shawn Michael Clarady&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/sclarady"&gt; My Twitter Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/shawn.clarady"&gt;My Facebook Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://canwetimetravel.blogspot.com/"&gt;My Time Travel Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://myspace.com/sclarady"&gt;My Myspace Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-7682954635582198181?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/q3KffS_GALY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/q3KffS_GALY/is-anonyupload-file-sharing-website-for.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Shawn M Clarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2012/01/is-anonyupload-file-sharing-website-for.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-5904473434331038924</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-24T13:05:44.544-05:00</atom:updated><title>Microsoft’s Kelihos botnet suspect used to work for computer security firm | Naked Security</title><description>&lt;a href="http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/24/microsoft-kelihos-botnet-suspect/?utm_source=facebook&amp;amp;utm_medium=status+message&amp;amp;utm_campaign=naked+security"&gt;Microsoft’s Kelihos botnet suspect used to work for computer security firm | Naked Security&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var addthis_pub="4a158b925606c0dd";&lt;/script&gt;&lt;a expr:name='data:post.title' expr:id='data:post.url' onmouseover='return addthis_open(this, "", this.id, this.name);' onmouseout='addthis_close()' onclick='return addthis_sendto()'&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/200/addthis_widget.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tech_news_information"&gt;RSS Feed&lt;/a&gt;Shawn Michael Clarady&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/sclarady"&gt; My Twitter Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/shawn.clarady"&gt;My Facebook Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://canwetimetravel.blogspot.com/"&gt;My Time Travel Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://myspace.com/sclarady"&gt;My Myspace Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-5904473434331038924?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/BfceB5lPde0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/BfceB5lPde0/microsofts-kelihos-botnet-suspect-used.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Shawn M Clarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2012/01/microsofts-kelihos-botnet-suspect-used.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-1043885175678302065</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-06-02T13:24:54.911-04:00</atom:updated><title>Lego Hello World</title><description>&lt;object style="background-image:url(http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/zX09WnGU6ZY/hqdefault.jpg)"  width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zX09WnGU6ZY&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zX09WnGU6ZY&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" width="425" height="344" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var addthis_pub="4a158b925606c0dd";&lt;/script&gt;&lt;a expr:name='data:post.title' expr:id='data:post.url' onmouseover='return addthis_open(this, "", this.id, this.name);' onmouseout='addthis_close()' onclick='return addthis_sendto()'&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/200/addthis_widget.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tech_news_information"&gt;RSS Feed&lt;/a&gt;Shawn Michael Clarady&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/sclarady"&gt; My Twitter Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/shawn.clarady"&gt;My Facebook Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://canwetimetravel.blogspot.com/"&gt;My Time Travel Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://myspace.com/sclarady"&gt;My Myspace Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-1043885175678302065?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/TV4Fhu0n4Yg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/TV4Fhu0n4Yg/lego-hello-world.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Shawn M Clarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2010/06/lego-hello-world.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-2046713450304084881</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-25T12:11:09.147-04:00</atom:updated><title>iTunes and AVG are not playing nice with each other</title><description>iTunes and AVG are not playing nice with each other.  When you run iTunes AVG will tell you that you have a (Trojan Horse Small .BOG) it is thought that this is a false alarm. To fix the problem open the AVG User Interface go to Resident Shield then Manage exceptions and Add Path&lt;br /&gt;Add C:\Program Files\iTunes and C:\Program Files\iPod. That should fix the issue. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Confirmed!!! AVG is bogusly calling iTunes a virus. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/30504/itunes-smallbog-trojan-virus/"&gt;http://www.inquisitr.com/30504/itunes-smallbog-trojan-virus/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var addthis_pub="4a158b925606c0dd";&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a expr:name='data:post.title' expr:id='data:post.url' onmouseover='return addthis_open(this, "", this.id, this.name);' onmouseout='addthis_close()' onclick='return addthis_sendto()'&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/200/addthis_widget.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tech_news_information"&gt;RSS Feed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shawn Michael Clarady&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/sclarady"&gt; My Twitter Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/shawn.clarady"&gt;My Facebook Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://canwetimetravel.blogspot.com/"&gt;My Time Travel Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://myspace.com/sclarady"&gt;My Myspace Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-2046713450304084881?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/sn77jAfqO_U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/sn77jAfqO_U/itunes-and-avg-are-not-playing-nice.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Shawn M Clarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2009/07/itunes-and-avg-are-not-playing-nice.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-5007263762963925608</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-21T01:25:31.569-04:00</atom:updated><title>Steve Jobs Had Liver Transplant!</title><description>Steve Jobs Had Liver Transplant! read the article &lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/06/jobs-liver-transplant/"&gt;here &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var addthis_pub="4a158b925606c0dd";&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a expr:name='data:post.title' expr:id='data:post.url' onmouseover='return addthis_open(this, "", this.id, this.name);' onmouseout='addthis_close()' onclick='return addthis_sendto()'&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/200/addthis_widget.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tech_news_information"&gt;RSS Feed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shawn Michael Clarady&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/sclarady"&gt; My Twitter Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/shawn.clarady"&gt;My Facebook Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://canwetimetravel.blogspot.com/"&gt;My Time Travel Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://myspace.com/sclarady"&gt;My Myspace Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-5007263762963925608?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/ZqrRrCUr2PA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/ZqrRrCUr2PA/steve-jobs-had-liver-transplant.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Shawn M Clarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2009/06/steve-jobs-had-liver-transplant.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-5028634477205617893</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-09T02:39:33.188-04:00</atom:updated><title>Microsoft updates Firefox and pokes a hole in it!</title><description>Many of you use Firefox because it dose not allow software from the web to install quietly without your knowledge like Internet Explorer dose. So why did Microsoft run an update to cause Firefox to do just that? A cording to Microsoft it was done so (the .NET Framework Assistant enables Firefox to use the ClickOnce technology that is included in the .NET Framework.) The reason people use Firefox is because it dose not allow the ClickOnce technology to work. Microsoft has said that they will allow you to revers this. Follow the instructions &lt;a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/963707"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; to enable the disable button in Firefox.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;font color ="red"&gt;Microsoft... I think you need a timeout so go sit in the corner and think about what you have done.&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/font color ="red"&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var addthis_pub="4a158b925606c0dd";&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a expr:name='data:post.title' expr:id='data:post.url' onmouseover='return addthis_open(this, "", this.id, this.name);' onmouseout='addthis_close()' onclick='return addthis_sendto()'&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/200/addthis_widget.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tech_news_information"&gt;RSS Feed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shawn Michael Clarady&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/sclarady"&gt; My Twitter Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fblink.com/shawnclarady"&gt;My Facebook Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://canwetimetravel.blogspot.com/"&gt;My Time Travel Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://myspace.com/sclarady"&gt;My Myspace Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-5028634477205617893?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/lA_l0KaLCks" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/lA_l0KaLCks/microsoft-updates-firefox-and-pokes.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Shawn M Clarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2009/06/microsoft-updates-firefox-and-pokes.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-1678996298767655568</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-05T03:25:51.639-04:00</atom:updated><title>Google Wave</title><description>Google Wave is the new way to get things done. The Google team is saying that it is the way email would have been created if email was invented today. You can use it as email or two or more people can work on a doc at the same time in real time or. It can also be used as an instant messaging tool. There many other ways that Google Wave can be use as well. Watch the video at &lt;a href="http://wave.google.com/"&gt;wave.google.com&lt;/a&gt; and sing up to be notified when it goes live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var addthis_pub="4a158b925606c0dd";&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a expr:name='data:post.title' expr:id='data:post.url' onmouseover='return addthis_open(this, "", this.id, this.name);' onmouseout='addthis_close()' onclick='return addthis_sendto()'&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/200/addthis_widget.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tech_news_information"&gt;RSS Feed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shawn Michael Clarady&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/sclarady"&gt; My Twitter Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fblink.com/shawnclarady"&gt;My Facebook Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://canwetimetravel.blogspot.com/"&gt;My Time Travel Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://myspace.com/sclarady"&gt;My Myspace Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-1678996298767655568?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/SREBIHzL2g8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/SREBIHzL2g8/google-wave.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Shawn M Clarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2009/06/google-wave.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-7789475374835592700</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 17:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-27T13:57:04.419-04:00</atom:updated><title>Make your computer tell you when a program starts!</title><description>How do you know when an application has started without your knowing it? It happens quite often. A bad guy will take advantage of this and run something in the background where you do not see it. Spyware, mellware and viruses will do this so that they can keep hidden from you. &lt;br /&gt;You can setup your computer to make a sound whenever a program starts up.  In Windows XP and Vista you will click start, control panel, system then sounds. Look in the list and find Open Program. Click once on it to highlight it. Now you are able to choose the sound you want to hear whenever a program starts up.  Keep in mind that when the computer starts up you will hear this sound multiple times.&lt;br /&gt;In Windows 7 you will click start then control panel, click on hardware and sounds. Under sounds choose change system sounds.&lt;br /&gt;Now you will know when a program is starting up. This is useful if you did not start the program you self.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var addthis_pub="4a158b925606c0dd";&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a expr:name='data:post.title' expr:id='data:post.url' onmouseover='return addthis_open(this, "", this.id, this.name);' onmouseout='addthis_close()' onclick='return addthis_sendto()'&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/200/addthis_widget.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tech_news_information"&gt;RSS Feed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shawn Michael Clarady&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/sclarady"&gt; My Twitter Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fblink.com/shawnclarady"&gt;My Facebook Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/"&gt; This Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://canwetimetravel.blogspot.com/"&gt;My Time Travel Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://myspace.com/sclarady"&gt;My Myspace Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-7789475374835592700?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/T6X9K7GMnCo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/T6X9K7GMnCo/make-your-computer-tell-you-when.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Shawn M Clarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2009/05/make-your-computer-tell-you-when.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-9002182168649498177</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 17:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-21T13:46:43.019-04:00</atom:updated><title>New phishing scam hits Facebook</title><description>People are tricked in to clicking a link that will steals your email and password. &lt;br /&gt;Read the more about it here People are tricked in to clicking a link that will steals your email and password. Read the more about it &lt;a href="People are tricked in to clicking a link that will steals your email and password.  Read the more about it here http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10246536-83.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20"&gt; here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var addthis_pub="4a158b925606c0dd";&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a expr:name='data:post.title' expr:id='data:post.url' onmouseover='return addthis_open(this, "", this.id, this.name);' onmouseout='addthis_close()' onclick='return addthis_sendto()'&gt;&lt;img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/200/addthis_widget.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- AddThis Button END --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tech_news_information"&gt;RSS Feed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shawn Michael Clarady&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/sclarady"&gt; My Twitter Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fblink.com/shawnclarady"&gt;My Facebook Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/"&gt; This Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://canwetimetravel.blogspot.com/"&gt;My Time Travel Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://myspace.com/sclarady"&gt;My Myspace Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-9002182168649498177?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/oT1enR4-EOM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/oT1enR4-EOM/new-phishing-scam-hits-facebook.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Shawn M Clarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-phishing-scam-hits-facebook.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-2911954944681732648</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 18:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-19T14:06:20.020-04:00</atom:updated><title>Showing hidden file extensions</title><description>Today when talking about what some believe to be a security flaw built and windows.  By default windows hides file extensions.  Because of windows hiding file extensions many people who write viruses and spyware are able to take advantage of this.  There are times when you download program believing that it one thing but it is really another.  They may call the file pitcher point in reality it’s an executable file used to install mellware, spyware or a virus on your system.  You look at this file and you see picture.jpg  but in reality it is picture.jpg.exe.  Because file extensions are hidden you are unaware that you have just downloaded an .exe file.  Not all that BXE files are bad, there are many times when you intend to download an .exe file.  It is those times that you wanted a pic but instead got bit that it would have been nice to have seen the file extension. &lt;br /&gt;To turn the show file extensions on you will need to go to a folder like my documents then click on tools then folder options. In there you will find a tab named View.  Click on the View tab and under Advance settings remove the check mark from (Hide extensions for known file types).  Now you will see the file extension of the files you download and can be sure that the file is what you expect it to be. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shawn Michael Clarady&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/sclarady"&gt; My Twitter Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fblink.com/shawnclarady"&gt;My Facebook Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/"&gt; This Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://canwetimetravel.blogspot.com/"&gt;My Time Travel Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://myspace.com/sclarady"&gt;My Myspace Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-2911954944681732648?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/Z19fpIsKWSo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/Z19fpIsKWSo/showing-hidden-file-extensions.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Shawn M Clarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2009/05/showing-hidden-file-extensions.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-4153858422432589044</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 05:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-15T01:58:03.480-04:00</atom:updated><title>Fake Facebook site scams users</title><description>Fake Facebook site scams users in to giving user name and password. Any site you go to will start out with (http://www. The name of the site you intend to go to.com/,net,/edu) then maybe some extra info after that. If is starts out with any thing else, it may not be the site you intended to go to. read more &lt;a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10241573-83.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shawn Michael Clarady&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/sclarady"&gt; My Twitter Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fblink.com/shawnclarady"&gt;My Facebook Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/"&gt; This Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://canwetimetravel.blogspot.com/"&gt;My Time Travel Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://myspace.com/sclarady"&gt;My Myspace Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-4153858422432589044?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/rKGDWVvbA2w" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/rKGDWVvbA2w/fake-facebook-site-scams-users.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Shawn M Clarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2009/05/fake-facebook-site-scams-users.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-3810808190879387511</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 06:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-12T03:18:29.869-04:00</atom:updated><title>Disable Adobe JavaScript</title><description>OK some bad guys have found a way to use JavaScript in Adobe Reader and Acrobat to run vishes code on your system. The good thing is you can turn off JavaScript in Adobe it will do every thing you need it to do with out it. The way you turn it off is very simple. First open Adobe Reader or Acrobat, then click edit on the menu bar at the top. Next click on Preferences. You will see a check in the box next to (Enable Acrobat JavaScript or Enable JavaScript. Remove the check mark and click OK. &lt;br /&gt;There is another option. The program is called Foxit. I runs PDF files just like Adobe Acrobat or Reader but with more options and with less security issues. You can get Foxit &lt;a href="http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; click the FREE Download.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is better to be safe then to loos all your work.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shawn Michael Clarady&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/sclarady"&gt; My Twitter Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fblink.com/shawnclarady"&gt;My Facebook Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/"&gt; This Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://canwetimetravel.blogspot.com/"&gt;My Time Travel Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://myspace.com/sclarady"&gt;My Myspace Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-3810808190879387511?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/4Mtz3stjaFM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/4Mtz3stjaFM/disable-adobe-javascript.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Shawn M Clarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2009/05/disable-adobe-javascript.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-5503243501725101084</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 15:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-10T11:15:21.748-04:00</atom:updated><title /><description>&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CSHAWNM%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CSHAWNM%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"&gt;&lt;link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CSHAWNM%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:trackmoves/&gt;   &lt;w:trackformatting/&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:donotpromoteqf/&gt;   &lt;w:lidthemeother&gt;EN-US&lt;/w:LidThemeOther&gt;   &lt;w:lidthemeasian&gt;X-NONE&lt;/w:LidThemeAsian&gt;   &lt;w:lidthemecomplexscript&gt;X-NONE&lt;/w:LidThemeComplexScript&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;    &lt;w:splitpgbreakandparamark/&gt;    &lt;w:dontvertaligncellwithsp/&gt;    &lt;w:dontbreakconstrainedforcedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:dontvertalignintxbx/&gt;    &lt;w:word11kerningpairs/&gt;    &lt;w:cachedcolbalance/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;   &lt;m:mathpr&gt;    &lt;m:mathfont val="Cambria Math"&gt;    &lt;m:brkbin val="before"&gt;    &lt;m:brkbinsub val="&amp;#45;-"&gt;    &lt;m:smallfrac val="off"&gt;    &lt;m:dispdef/&gt;    &lt;m:lmargin val="0"&gt;    &lt;m:rmargin val="0"&gt;    &lt;m:defjc val="centerGroup"&gt;    &lt;m:wrapindent val="1440"&gt;    &lt;m:intlim val="subSup"&gt;    &lt;m:narylim val="undOvr"&gt;   &lt;/m:mathPr&gt;&lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" defunhidewhenused="true" defsemihidden="true" defqformat="false" defpriority="99" latentstylecount="267"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="0" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Normal"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="9" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="heading 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="9" qformat="true" name="heading 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="9" qformat="true" name="heading 3"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="9" qformat="true" name="heading 4"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="9" qformat="true" name="heading 5"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="9" qformat="true" name="heading 6"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="9" qformat="true" name="heading 7"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="9" qformat="true" name="heading 8"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="9" qformat="true" name="heading 9"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" name="toc 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" name="toc 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" name="toc 3"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" name="toc 4"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" name="toc 5"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" name="toc 6"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" name="toc 7"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" name="toc 8"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" name="toc 9"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="35" qformat="true" name="caption"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="10" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Title"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="1" name="Default Paragraph Font"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="11" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Subtitle"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="22" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Strong"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="20" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Emphasis"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="59" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Table Grid"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Placeholder Text"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="1" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="No Spacing"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="60" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Shading"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="61" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light List"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="62" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Grid"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="63" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="64" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="65" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="66" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="67" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="68" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="69" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 3"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="70" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Dark List"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="71" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Shading"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="72" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful List"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="73" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Grid"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="60" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Shading Accent 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="61" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light List Accent 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="62" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Grid Accent 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="63" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="64" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="65" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 1 Accent 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Revision"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="34" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="List Paragraph"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="29" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Quote"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="30" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Intense Quote"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="66" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 2 Accent 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="67" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="68" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="69" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="70" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Dark List Accent 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="71" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Shading Accent 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="72" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful List Accent 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="73" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Grid Accent 1"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="60" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Shading Accent 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="61" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light List Accent 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="62" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Grid Accent 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="63" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="64" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="65" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 1 Accent 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="66" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 2 Accent 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="67" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="68" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="69" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="70" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Dark List Accent 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="71" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Shading Accent 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="72" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful List Accent 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="73" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Grid Accent 2"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="60" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Shading Accent 3"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="61" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light List Accent 3"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="62" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Grid Accent 3"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="63" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 3"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="64" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 3"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="65" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 1 Accent 3"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="66" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 2 Accent 3"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="67" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 3"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="68" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 3"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="69" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 3"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="70" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Dark List Accent 3"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="71" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Shading Accent 3"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="72" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful List Accent 3"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="73" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Grid Accent 3"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="60" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Shading Accent 4"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="61" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light List Accent 4"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="62" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Grid Accent 4"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="63" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="64" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="65" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 1 Accent 4"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="66" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 2 Accent 4"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="67" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 4"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="68" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="69" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="70" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Dark List Accent 4"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="71" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Shading Accent 4"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="72" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful List Accent 4"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="73" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Grid Accent 4"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="60" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Shading Accent 5"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="61" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light List Accent 5"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="62" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Grid Accent 5"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="63" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 5"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="64" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 5"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="65" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 1 Accent 5"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="66" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 2 Accent 5"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="67" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 5"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="68" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 5"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="69" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 5"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="70" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Dark List Accent 5"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="71" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Shading Accent 5"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="72" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful List Accent 5"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="73" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Grid Accent 5"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="60" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Shading Accent 6"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="61" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light List Accent 6"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="62" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Grid Accent 6"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="63" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 6"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="64" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 6"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="65" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 1 Accent 6"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="66" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 2 Accent 6"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="67" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 6"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="68" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 6"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="69" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 6"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="70" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Dark List Accent 6"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="71" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Shading Accent 6"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="72" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful List Accent 6"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="73" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Grid Accent 6"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="19" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Subtle Emphasis"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="21" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Intense Emphasis"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="31" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Subtle Reference"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="32" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Intense Reference"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="33" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Book Title"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="37" name="Bibliography"&gt;   &lt;w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" qformat="true" name="TOC Heading"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Font Definitions */  @font-face 	{font-family:"Cambria Math"; 	panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; 	mso-font-charset:0; 	mso-generic-font-family:roman; 	mso-font-pitch:variable; 	mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1107304683 0 0 415 0;} @font-face 	{font-family:Calibri; 	panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; 	mso-font-charset:0; 	mso-generic-font-family:swiss; 	mso-font-pitch:variable; 	mso-font-signature:-520092929 1073786111 9 0 415 0;}  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-unhide:no; 	mso-style-qformat:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	margin-top:0in; 	margin-right:0in; 	margin-bottom:10.0pt; 	margin-left:0in; 	line-height:200%; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:11.0pt; 	font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; 	mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink 	{mso-style-priority:99; 	color:blue; 	mso-themecolor:hyperlink; 	text-decoration:underline; 	text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed 	{mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-priority:99; 	color:purple; 	mso-themecolor:followedhyperlink; 	text-decoration:underline; 	text-underline:single;} .MsoChpDefault 	{mso-style-type:export-only; 	mso-default-props:yes; 	mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} .MsoPapDefault 	{mso-style-type:export-only; 	margin-bottom:10.0pt; 	line-height:200%;} @page Section1 	{size:8.5in 11.0in; 	margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in; 	mso-header-margin:.5in; 	mso-footer-margin:.5in; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-priority:99; 	mso-style-qformat:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin-top:0in; 	mso-para-margin-right:0in; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; 	mso-para-margin-left:0in; 	line-height:200%; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:11.0pt; 	font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; 	mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; 	mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;In the past few years there has been an increase in what is now being called scareware. It starts with a small piece of spyware that then gives you a popup that informs you that you may be infected, that is where the scareware comes in. The authors of the scare tactic would want you to think that you are infected and even will offer to scan your system for free, (well that is nice of them.) After the scan which is not really a scan but just a way to add more spyware on your system, they will tell you that you have problems and that the only way to get rid of infections is to buy their product. The truth is that you may not have anything wrong with your system at all except that first piece of spyware that started this scare tactic in the first place. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;How do you get rid of this scareware and spyware? Install and run a good antivirus like Avast &lt;a href="http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html"&gt;http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html&lt;/a&gt; or AVG &lt;a href="http://download.cnet.com/AVG-Anti-Virus-Free-Edition/3000-2239_4-10320142.html"&gt;http://download.cnet.com/AVG-Anti-Virus-Free-Edition/3000-2239_4-10320142.html&lt;/a&gt; . You should also have a good antispyware program like Spybot &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Search&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Destroy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html"&gt;http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;the other thing that you will want to do is run Windows updates. New Windows updates are released ever second Tuesday of the month. You may want to run Windows updates in between as well as Microsoft will release updates on other dates as well. Remember if something on the internet is telling you that you are infected, they are most likely the ones that infected you. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;A clean computer is a happy computer. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Shawn Michael Clarady
&lt;br /&gt;http://twitter.com/sclarady
&lt;br /&gt;http://fblink.com/shawnclarady
&lt;br /&gt;http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/
&lt;br /&gt;http://canwetimetravel.blogspot.com/
&lt;br /&gt;http://myspace.com/sclarady&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-5503243501725101084?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/JvAYFcb226M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/JvAYFcb226M/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Shawn M Clarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2009/05/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-7901170767836482202</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 15:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-21T13:21:00.596-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">virus</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">antivirus</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">spyware</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">scareware</category><title>What is scareware?</title><description>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CSHAWNM%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CSHAWNM%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"&gt;&lt;link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CSHAWNM%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:WordDocument&gt;   &lt;w:View&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:Zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:TrackMoves/&gt;   &lt;w:TrackFormatting/&gt;   &lt;w:PunctuationKerning/&gt;   &lt;w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/&gt;   &lt;w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:DoNotPromoteQF/&gt;   &lt;w:LidThemeOther&gt;EN-US&lt;/w:LidThemeOther&gt;   &lt;w:LidThemeAsian&gt;X-NONE&lt;/w:LidThemeAsian&gt;   &lt;w:LidThemeComplexScript&gt;X-NONE&lt;/w:LidThemeComplexScript&gt;   &lt;w:Compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:BreakWrappedTables/&gt;    &lt;w:SnapToGridInCell/&gt;    &lt;w:WrapTextWithPunct/&gt;    &lt;w:UseAsianBreakRules/&gt;    &lt;w:DontGrowAutofit/&gt;    &lt;w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/&gt;    &lt;w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/&gt;    &lt;w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/&gt;    &lt;w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/&gt;    &lt;w:Word11KerningPairs/&gt;    &lt;w:CachedColBalance/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:BrowserLevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;   &lt;m:mathPr&gt;    &lt;m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/&gt;    &lt;m:brkBin m:val="before"/&gt;    &lt;m:brkBinSub m:val="&amp;#45;-"/&gt;    &lt;m:smallFrac m:val="off"/&gt;    &lt;m:dispDef/&gt;    &lt;m:lMargin m:val="0"/&gt;    &lt;m:rMargin m:val="0"/&gt;    &lt;m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/&gt;    &lt;m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/&gt;    &lt;m:intLim m:val="subSup"/&gt;    &lt;m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/&gt;   &lt;/m:mathPr&gt;&lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"   DefSemiHidden="true" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99"   LatentStyleCount="267"&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Normal"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="heading 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 3"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 4"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 5"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 6"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 7"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 8"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 9"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 3"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 4"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 5"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 6"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 7"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 8"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 9"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="35" QFormat="true" Name="caption"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="10" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Title"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" Name="Default Paragraph Font"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="11" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtitle"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="22" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Strong"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="20" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Emphasis"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="59" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Table Grid"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Placeholder Text"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="No Spacing"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Revision"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="34" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="List Paragraph"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="29" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Quote"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="30" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Quote"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 1"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 2"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 3"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 3"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 3"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 3"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 3"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 3"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 3"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 3"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 3"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 3"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 3"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 3"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 3"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 3"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 4"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 4"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 4"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 4"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 4"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 4"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 4"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 4"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 4"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 4"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 5"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 5"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 5"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 5"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 5"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 5"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 5"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 5"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 5"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 5"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 5"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 5"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 5"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 5"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 6"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 6"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 6"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 6"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 6"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 6"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 6"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 6"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 6"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 6"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 6"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 6"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 6"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 6"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="19" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Emphasis"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="21" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Emphasis"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="31" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Reference"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="32" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Reference"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="33" SemiHidden="false"    UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Book Title"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="37" Name="Bibliography"/&gt;   &lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" QFormat="true" Name="TOC Heading"/&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Font Definitions */  @font-face 	{font-family:"Cambria Math"; 	panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; 	mso-font-charset:0; 	mso-generic-font-family:roman; 	mso-font-pitch:variable; 	mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1107304683 0 0 415 0;} @font-face 	{font-family:Calibri; 	panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; 	mso-font-charset:0; 	mso-generic-font-family:swiss; 	mso-font-pitch:variable; 	mso-font-signature:-520092929 1073786111 9 0 415 0;}  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-unhide:no; 	mso-style-qformat:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	margin-top:0in; 	margin-right:0in; 	margin-bottom:10.0pt; 	margin-left:0in; 	line-height:200%; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:11.0pt; 	font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; 	mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink 	{mso-style-priority:99; 	color:blue; 	mso-themecolor:hyperlink; 	text-decoration:underline; 	text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed 	{mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-priority:99; 	color:purple; 	mso-themecolor:followedhyperlink; 	text-decoration:underline; 	text-underline:single;} .MsoChpDefault 	{mso-style-type:export-only; 	mso-default-props:yes; 	mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} .MsoPapDefault 	{mso-style-type:export-only; 	margin-bottom:10.0pt; 	line-height:200%;} @page Section1 	{size:8.5in 11.0in; 	margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in; 	mso-header-margin:.5in; 	mso-footer-margin:.5in; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-priority:99; 	mso-style-qformat:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin-top:0in; 	mso-para-margin-right:0in; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; 	mso-para-margin-left:0in; 	line-height:200%; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:11.0pt; 	font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; 	mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; 	mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;In the past few years there has been an increase in what is now being called scareware. It starts with a small piece of spyware that then gives you a popup that informs you that you may be infected, that is where the scareware comes in. The authors of the scare tactic would want you to think that you are infected and even will offer to scan your system for free, (well that is nice of them.) After the scan which is not really a scan but just a way to add more spyware on your system, they will tell you that you have problems and that the only way to get rid of infections is to buy their product. The truth is that you may not have anything wrong with your system at all except that first piece of spyware that started this scare tactic in the first place. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;How do you get rid of this scareware and spyware? Install and run a good antivirus like Avast &lt;a href="http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html"&gt;http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html&lt;/a&gt; or AVG &lt;a href="http://download.cnet.com/AVG-Anti-Virus-Free-Edition/3000-2239_4-10320142.html"&gt;http://download.cnet.com/AVG-Anti-Virus-Free-Edition/3000-2239_4-10320142.html&lt;/a&gt; . You should also have a good antispyware program like Spybot &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Search&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Destroy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html"&gt;http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;the other thing that you will want to do is run Windows updates. New Windows updates are released ever second Tuesday of the month. You may want to run Windows updates in between as well as Microsoft will release updates on other dates as well. Remember if something on the internet is telling you that you are infected, they are most likely the ones that infected you. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;A clean computer is a happy computer. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Shawn Michael Clarady
&lt;br /&gt;http://twitter.com/sclarady
&lt;br /&gt;http://fblink.com/shawnclarady
&lt;br /&gt;http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/
&lt;br /&gt;http://canwetimetravel.blogspot.com/
&lt;br /&gt;http://myspace.com/sclarady&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-7901170767836482202?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/KCU-IaIzR6E" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/KCU-IaIzR6E/what-is-scareware.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Shawn M Clarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-is-scareware.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-3579388907798988287</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 17:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-07T13:42:34.219-04:00</atom:updated><title>Windows 7 CR</title><description>Windows 7 CR was released on 5-5-2009 to the public. I am running a dual boot of Windows 7 and Vista and as of now Windows 7 seems to be running very smoothly. The one thing that I noticed is that it dose not feel heavy or bogged down. The installation was very smooth and quick. It only took about 20 to 25 minutes to completely install Windows 7. It has a very nice feel to it. Lets hope that HP, Dell, Gateway, and all the other PC makers don't fill it with crap. I think it was Leo Laporte that said (they crap it up) and it is true. If you want your copy you can get it here &lt;a href="https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40084742"&gt;Windows 7&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shawn Michael Clarady&lt;br /&gt;http://twitter.com/sclarady&lt;br /&gt;http://fblink.com/shawnclarady&lt;br /&gt;http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;http://canwetimetravel.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;http://myspace.com/sclarady&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-3579388907798988287?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/8WAM52Zjc20" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/8WAM52Zjc20/windows-7-cr.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Shawn M Clarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2009/05/windows-7-cr.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-1212713645057241012</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-01T03:45:33.470-04:00</atom:updated><title>Microsoft releases updates every Tuesday</title><description>&lt;h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message"&gt;For those that did not know every second  Tuesday of the month Microsoft releases updates. So EVERYONE should run windows updates NOW. I know that some of you will say (but it updates on it's owen) STILL DO IT. Please do it... PLEASE. Conficker is a nasty worm &amp;amp; you DO NOT want it.&lt;/h3&gt;Shawn Michael Clarady&lt;br /&gt;http://twitter.com/sclarady&lt;br /&gt;http://fblink.com/shawnclarady&lt;br /&gt;http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;http://canwetimetravel.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;http://myspace.com/sclarady&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-1212713645057241012?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/D0rPewh8t4k" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/D0rPewh8t4k/microsoft-releases-updates-every.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Shawn M Clarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2009/04/microsoft-releases-updates-every.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-7782315227588911760</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-30T04:04:19.277-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">virus</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Conficker</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Windows updates</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SRI International</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">worm</category><title>Conficker</title><description>The http://mtc.sri.com web site has a report that is quite detailed  about the Conficker worm. You can find it at http://mtc.sri.com/Conficker/addendumC/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Steve Gibson &lt;/em&gt;read this on Security Now podcast Episode #193. It shows how complex this worm is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Conficker C is in fact a robust and secure distribution utility&lt;br /&gt;for distributing malicious content and binaries to millions of computers across the&lt;br /&gt;Internet. This utility incorporates a potent arsenal of methods to defend itself from&lt;br /&gt;security products, updates, and diagnosis tools. It further demonstrates the rapid&lt;br /&gt;development pace at which Conficker's authors are maintaining their current foothold on&lt;br /&gt;a large number of Internet-connected hosts. Further, if organized into a coordinated&lt;br /&gt;offensive weapon, this multimillion-node botnet poses a serious and dire threat to the&lt;br /&gt;Internet."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best protection from this worm is running Windows updates EVERY Tuesday when the new updates are released.  Keep your anti virus up to date.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shawn Michael Clarady&lt;br /&gt;http://twitter.com/sclarady&lt;br /&gt;http://fblink.com/shawnclarady&lt;br /&gt;http://safewebbrowsing.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;http://canwetimetravel.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;http://myspace.com/sclarady&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-7782315227588911760?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/F0-s2pRZ1EU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/F0-s2pRZ1EU/conficker.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Shawn M Clarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2009/04/conficker.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-3956404916976391328</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-27T03:18:39.901-04:00</atom:updated><title>AVG Anti Virus problem and how to fix it.</title><description>Ok peeps It looks as if AVG has some issue with the  AVG Anti Virus program. It seems to be slowing down the computer and even locking it up at times. The fix that I have found is to restart the computer, do not touch AVG. Go to google.com and type in (avg). Download AVG again and reinstall it. This seems to fix the problem.&lt;br /&gt;You can go to this site as well http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/lng/us/tpl/v5&lt;br /&gt;and look for  (Anti-Virus Free) then click download.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-3956404916976391328?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/6zZJlzk4pSw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/6zZJlzk4pSw/avg-anti-virus-problem-and-how-to-fix.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (sclarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2007/04/avg-anti-virus-problem-and-how-to-fix.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-1540262284944958622</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-27T03:18:39.901-04:00</atom:updated><title>The FBI says scam artists are putting a new twist on a death threat hoax.</title><description>&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The FBI says scam artists are putting a new twist on a death threat hoax.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;color:black;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;In early December, the FBI warned of an e-mail scam where the sender said he'd been paid to kill you, but would let you live if you gave him thousands of dollars.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Now, there's a new e-mail going around, supposedly from the FBI in London.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;It says police recently arrested someone for several murders in the U.S. and Britain, connected to the original e-mail.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Supposedly, the suspect was carrying information identifying you as the next victim.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;The email asks you to respond in order to help with the investigation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;The FBI says, do not respond to these e-mails.  Doing so could compromise your personal information, and open you up to identity theft.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-1540262284944958622?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/HaLQPpo8MOM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/HaLQPpo8MOM/fbi-says-scam-artists-are-putting-new.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (sclarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2007/02/fbi-says-scam-artists-are-putting-new.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-3708153138078815508</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-27T03:18:39.901-04:00</atom:updated><title>Shirley Tyus of Columbia thought her ship had finally come in.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;The former nurse’s aide was notified she’d won, incredibly, not one, but a fast succession of foreign lotteries. She was even mailed checks to cover fees required to collect her winnings.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;“I thought I was blessed,” said Tyus, 54, who, because of a back injury, mainly baby-sits to support herself and four daughters still in college. A fifth graduated with honors last year in nursing.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;But instead of receiving a blessing, Tyus faces disaster. The lotteries and the checks were all bogus.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;She not only didn’t win big, she owes her bank thousands of dollars. Worse, she faces forgery charges that could send her to jail.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Her case reflects what some consumer experts fear is a change in how law enforcement seeks to stem rampant lottery fraud — going after the victims.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;“It’s become a nightmare. I thought I was the victim,” Tyus told me as she supplied me with documentation of her story.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In October, the Boone County prosecutor charged Tyus with four felony counts of passing forged checks with intent to defraud &lt;b&gt;Missouri Credit Union &lt;/b&gt;and &lt;b&gt;Legend Automotive&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Tyus has yet to appear on the charges. But she disputes them all.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prosecutors won’t discuss the case. But Columbia police Detective Steve Brown said authorities allege that while Tyus may have started out a victim, she saw a way to make easy money by passing large checks she knew were bad.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;“You go from naive to knowing to criminal,” Brown said.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The only problem is Tyus didn’t make a dime.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Here’s a summary of what happened:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Tyus played FreeLotto on the Internet. Once in a while she even won a buck.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Internet is apparently where the scam artists got hold of her name. In early August she got a letter saying she’d won the Australian Lottery.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In late August, she got a letter saying she’d won the British Bonanza 2000.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Each time, she was sent authentic looking checks — one was for $5,000 and another was for $2,996 — to cover the required fees to get her winnings into the country. She was directed to deposit the checks into her own bank, and then withdraw cash and wire the money to addresses in Houston and Canada, which she did, receipts show.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Credit union tellers didn’t bat an eye, despite the size and sources of the checks, one of which was written on an Oregon business, &lt;b&gt;Mercer Industries&lt;/b&gt;, which makes windows. A firm spokesman told me lottery scammers sent copies of the company’s checks all over the country. “It was driving us nuts,” the spokesman said.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Tyus had already wired cash from the second lottery check when, one by one, the checks began to bounce. The Missouri Credit Union wanted its money back. But it was gone, and Tyus’ account was in the red.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, she was bombarded with more lottery-related checks, money orders and even U.S. Postal orders. Experts say Tyus was probably placed on a “suckers” list, which fraud experts say lottery scammers use to identify an easy mark.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In mid-September, Tyus saw a Legend Automotive ad for a “liquidation” sale. Payments started at $55 a month, and promotional discounts reduced them even more. She needed a car, and here was a bargain.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;But a salesman told her that to qualify for the discounts she first had to be approved for a loan and make a down payment.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Tyus had just received four Travelers Express money orders and a &lt;b&gt;Washington Mutual Bank &lt;/b&gt;check for $15,200, all from apparent lotteries. She pulled them out. “I asked the man, could I use them?” she said. “He took them and wouldn’t give them back. I never did sign them. I haven’t seen them since.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legend officials said they were immediately suspicious about the checks and gave them to police. Tyus never got a car. For one thing, she learned later, she didn’t qualify for a loan.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Experts say charges against lottery victims remain rare. But they are increasing, partly because frustrated police can’t stop the crooks behind the foreign scams raking in $1 billion a year. U.S. authorities lack jurisdiction in Canada, where dozens of lottery scams snag more than 4,000 U.S. victims a month.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;“We’ve heard of people showing up at a check-cashing outlet and police also showing up,” said Susan Grant, vice president for public policy for the &lt;b&gt;National Consumers League&lt;/b&gt;, which tracks frauds. But she argues that going after victims is out of proportion to their role in the international web of lottery scams.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;“It’s putting more responsibility on victims than I think they deserve,” she said. “If you look at the whole situation, that they didn’t know, then prosecuting them is really inappropriate and doesn’t do anything for anyone.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;At best, Tyus was certainly terribly gullible. But it’s something else to believe she was part of an international lottery scam, forged checks in her kitchen or plotted to defraud anyone.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prosecutors have to prove intent, so I asked Hal James, president and CEO of Missouri Credit Union, whether he believed Tyus set out to bilk his institution. “I don’t have a clue,” he said.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;hr class="infobox-hr-separator" color="#cccccc" size="1"&gt; &lt;div class="infobox"&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="infobox-head"&gt;Scam warning &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you unexpectedly get a check, it’s probably a scam. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;If you cash the check, you will be liable if it bounces. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;If it bounces, you may be sued or prosecuted. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;If you must deposit the check, wait until you know it cleared to cash it. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;If you have questions, ask your teller or a bank official. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="infobox-head"&gt;To report a scam &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Attorney general: Missouri:  &lt;a href="http://www.ago.mo.gov/"&gt;www.ago.mo.gov&lt;/a&gt; or (800) 392-8222; Kansas:  &lt;a href="http://www.ksag.org/"&gt;www.ksag.org&lt;/a&gt; or (800) 432-2310 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;National Consumers League: &lt;a href="http://www.nclcnet.org/"&gt;www.nclcnet.org&lt;/a&gt; or (202) 835-3323 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Federal Trade Commission:  &lt;a href="http://www.ftc.gov/"&gt;www.ftc.gov&lt;/a&gt; or (877) 382-4357 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Phone Busters:  &lt;a href="http://www.phonebusters.com/"&gt;www.phonebusters.com&lt;/a&gt; or (888) 495-8501 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;U.S. Postal Inspection Service:  &lt;a href="http://www.usps.com/postalinspectors"&gt;www.usps.com/postalinspectors&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-3708153138078815508?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/ADcJaM_KKYA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/ADcJaM_KKYA/shirley-tyus-of-columbia-thought-her.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (sclarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2007/02/shirley-tyus-of-columbia-thought-her.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-6253256508091515627</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-27T03:18:39.901-04:00</atom:updated><title>China is now the most infected country in the world</title><description>China is now the most infected country in the world and Asia contains half the world's infected computers, according to security company Prolexic.&lt;br /&gt;The figures come from the company's Denial of Service (DDoS) Weather Report, which reports on the botnet activity around the globe from infected computers.&lt;br /&gt;Countries in Asia account for five of the six most infected territories around the world, with the US in second place. The UK is tenth.&lt;br /&gt;Net use in China is exploding. According to figures for 2006 released by the China Internet &lt;a href="http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/103272/botnet-army-massing-in-china-prolexic.html%20%5C%20%22"&gt;Networks&lt;/a&gt; Information Centre (CNNIC), the People's Republic now boasts 137 million Internet users, up 23.4 per cent year on year.&lt;br /&gt;There are a number factors exacerbating the China problem, said Keith Laslop, President of Prolexic. One is 'because of the high use of pirate software, which Microsoft refuses to protect,' he said, which leaves systems open to virus infection.&lt;br /&gt;Others include online criminals in China 'being able to exploit weak cybercrime legislation,' he said. 'If you commit a cybercrime in China, you face execution. If you do the same thing outside of China, the government won't bat an eyelid.'&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, the business landscape in China can be far from friendly. Laslop said that successful startups in China will soon come to the attention of the authorities, who are likely to move their own personnel in to key positions. 'It's more prudent to start an illegitimate business in China than a legitimate one.'&lt;br /&gt;The other reason botnets are growing is because the DDoS attacks using them are successful. Laslop said that the infrastructure of web-facing systems are too often inadequate to cope with the threat. In particular, he noted that the Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) open-source systems are vulnerable when not configured properly.&lt;br /&gt;'LAMP is not built defensively,' he said. 'It makes it a very easy target. You have to be very careful about how you configure it. You have burn some defensibility on to it. What it takes is planning, and right now there's no planning out there.'&lt;br /&gt;The nature of attacks is also changing. They no longer rely on the brute force method of throwing masses of traffic at a server, but take a more targeted approach.&lt;br /&gt;'They have moved from consumption type attacks to targeted http or application based attacks, trying to bring the CPU load to 100 per cent, maybe through an advanced search, or via registration pages,' he said. 'These new attacks appear legitimate. They sidestep firewalls, DDOS mitigation boxes, IDS services and so on.'&lt;br /&gt;The report claims such attacks can use https to sidestep built in DDoS and IPS systems, and relatively low bandwidth - sub 50Mb - to succeed.&lt;br /&gt;Paul Sop, CTO of Prolexic, said: 'A botnet is like a Swiss-army knife in that it has many tools which the attacker can implement. Attackers have started finding ways around many common DDoS defence systems and are adding those capabilities to their botnets. Their new tactics involve countermeasures of a previously unheard of level of sophistication. The challenge in stopping these attacks requires identifying, to a great level of detail, the usage patterns of normal users versus simulated bot users.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-6253256508091515627?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/UEmQfrPqLQI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/UEmQfrPqLQI/china-is-now-most-infected-country-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (sclarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2007/02/china-is-now-most-infected-country-in.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-7177790098287030506</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-27T03:18:39.902-04:00</atom:updated><title>Windows Vista is here</title><description>Windows vista is here but witch one is the one for you?&lt;br /&gt;With five Vistas to chose from it may be heard know.&lt;br /&gt;Their is                               &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;Ultimate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ns6RtFVjeW0/Rb-EspQM86I/AAAAAAAAAAU/0hP5V9J6grE/s1600-h/ultimata.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 59px; height: 71px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ns6RtFVjeW0/Rb-EspQM86I/AAAAAAAAAAU/0hP5V9J6grE/s320/ultimata.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5025881611691684770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="majorHeader"&gt;Home Premium&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 class="majorHeader"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ns6RtFVjeW0/Rb-FdpQM87I/AAAAAAAAAAc/jT-XfP4YLRQ/s1600-h/home+premium.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 55px; height: 79px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ns6RtFVjeW0/Rb-FdpQM87I/AAAAAAAAAAc/jT-XfP4YLRQ/s320/home+premium.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5025882453505274802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Home Basic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h3 class="majorHeader"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ns6RtFVjeW0/Rb-F45QM88I/AAAAAAAAAAk/ula9SJ2t0So/s1600-h/hothome+basic.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 52px; height: 71px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ns6RtFVjeW0/Rb-F45QM88I/AAAAAAAAAAk/ula9SJ2t0So/s320/hothome+basic.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5025882921656710082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="majorHeader"&gt;Business&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ns6RtFVjeW0/Rb-GNZQM89I/AAAAAAAAAAs/NALA-pbZLS0/s1600-h/business.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 54px; height: 74px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ns6RtFVjeW0/Rb-GNZQM89I/AAAAAAAAAAs/NALA-pbZLS0/s320/business.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5025883273844028370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="majorHeader"&gt;Enterprise&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ns6RtFVjeW0/Rb-GqZQM8-I/AAAAAAAAAA0/AvkaGU-Ib5Y/s1600-h/enterprise.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 55px; height: 71px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ns6RtFVjeW0/Rb-GqZQM8-I/AAAAAAAAAA0/AvkaGU-Ib5Y/s320/enterprise.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5025883772060234722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To help you find the wright one for you visit the &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/default.mspx"&gt;Windows vista web site&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-7177790098287030506?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/KCZPAVr6xyU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/KCZPAVr6xyU/windows-vista-is-here.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (sclarady)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ns6RtFVjeW0/Rb-EspQM86I/AAAAAAAAAAU/0hP5V9J6grE/s72-c/ultimata.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2007/01/windows-vista-is-here.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-1470485804729854241</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-27T03:18:39.902-04:00</atom:updated><title>Ford Nucleon: Back to the future?</title><description>&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;September 10, 2006 6:00 AM PDT&lt;/span&gt;     &lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;With so much attention focused on &lt;a href="http://news.com.com/Green+tech+powers+forward/2009-1008_3-6106533.html?tag=nl" title="Green tech powers forward -- Tuesday, Sep 5, 2006"&gt;alternative energy&lt;/a&gt; these days, &lt;a href="http://news.com.com/Which+road+leads+to+energy+independence/2010-11389_3-6111259.html?tag=nl" title="Which road leads to energy independence? -- Tuesday, Sep 5, 2006"&gt;non-fossil fuel proposals&lt;/a&gt; for cars have run a wide gamut. Even the once-verboten subject of a &lt;a href="http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.com.com%2F2300-11389_3-6093546-1.html&amp;siteId=3&amp;amp;oId=/Which+road+leads+to+energy+independence/2010-11389_3-6111259.html&amp;ontId=10784&amp;amp;lop=nl.ex"&gt;nuclear-powered automobile&lt;/a&gt; has arisen with increasing frequency.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Usually absent from these discussions, however, is the history of designs for such vehicles that came off drawing boards in Detroit throughout the 1950s at the height of the Atomic Age. This post on Damn Interesting, for example, reminds us that such models as the &lt;a href="http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.damninteresting.com%2F%3Fp%3D656%23more-656&amp;siteId=3&amp;amp;oId=/Which+road+leads+to+energy+independence/2010-11389_3-6111259.html&amp;ontId=10784&amp;amp;lop=nl.ex"&gt;Ford Nucleon&lt;/a&gt; were once seriously considered as the automobiles of the future.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; In retrospect, perhaps Ford's ideas weren't so far-fetched after all.&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;div class="blogAuthor"&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="mailto:mikey@cnet.com;mikeyamamoto@email.com?subject=FEEDBACK:%20Ford%20Nucleon:%20Back%20to%20the%20future?"&gt;Mike Yamamoto&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-1470485804729854241?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/tgyCHXL4iTI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/tgyCHXL4iTI/ford-nucleon-back-to-future.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (sclarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2006/09/ford-nucleon-back-to-future.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-6377103523369525766</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-27T03:18:39.902-04:00</atom:updated><title>Man gets 7 years for software piracy</title><description>&lt;b&gt; The owner of one of the nation's largest software piracy Web sites has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison--the longest sentence ever handed down for software piracy. &lt;/b&gt; &lt;p&gt; Nathan Peterson, 27, of Los Angeles, sold copyrighted software at a huge discount on his site, iBackups.net, prosecutors said. The FBI began investigating the site in 2003 and shut it down in February 2005. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- STORY TEASE --&gt; &lt;newselement&gt;             &lt;newselement&gt;  &lt;/newselement&gt;&lt;/newselement&gt;&lt;div id="textCarousel"&gt;U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III on Friday ordered Peterson to pay restitution of more than $5.4 million. Peterson pleaded guilty in December in Alexandria, Va., to two counts of copyright infringement for illegally copying and selling more than $20 million in software. &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;!-- END STORY TEASE --&gt;  &lt;p&gt; Justice Department and industry officials called the case one of the largest involving Internet software piracy ever prosecuted. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Last month, &lt;a href="http://news.com.com/Software+pirate+gets+six+years/2110-1014_3-6109685.html?tag=nl" title="Software pirate gets six years -- Friday, Aug 25, 2006"&gt;Ellis sentenced&lt;/a&gt; Danny Ferrer, a Florida man who pleaded guilty to copyright charges in connection with multimillion-dollar sales of pirated software, to six years in prison. &lt;/p&gt; Software piracy resulted in a &lt;a href="http://news.com.com/Study+Software+piracy+costs+34+billion/2100-1014_3-6075629.html?tag=nl" title="Study: Software piracy costs $34 billion -- Tuesday, May 23, 2006"&gt;loss of $34 billion&lt;/a&gt; worldwide in 2005, a $1.6 billion increase over 2004, according to a study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-6377103523369525766?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/S7ARYXLZLU8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/S7ARYXLZLU8/man-gets-7-years-for-software-piracy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (sclarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2006/09/man-gets-7-years-for-software-piracy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7795743915277370885.post-5884883060806218485</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-27T03:18:39.902-04:00</atom:updated><title>Drive-by installations of malicious code</title><description>Websense Security Labs is seeing large increases in drive-by installations of malicious code that is hosted on websites that are using the Web Attacker Toolkit. When a user visits one of the nearly 1000 sites that are being used to run code without user intervention, a Trojan Horse is downloaded and run. It can log keystrokes, download additional code, or open backdoors on the user's machine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The kit is being sold on the Internet for as little as $20 and can be purchased and downloaded from a website hosted in Russia (see &lt;a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/27/spyware_diy/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.theregister.co.uk&lt;wbr&gt;/2006/03/27/spyware_diy/&lt;/a&gt;). The Web Attacker tool also includes a nice graphical interface and an instructional manual to assist in configuring your server for the exploit. Along with that are details about which anti-virus engines cannot detect it, and how it works.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The kit has the ability to detect the visiting user's browser through the user agent and will serve one of seven different exploits based on the browser settings. It includes exploits for a number of different browsers and browser versions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is also interesting is that the websites that are hosting the malicious code also include a statistics page that shows the number of infected clients, percentage of clients that have been infected, and a breakdown by country, Operating System, and browser.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can see from the screenshot below, the percentage of successful infections is quite high. On average we are seeing between 3% and 13% overall success rate. It is also interesting to notice the large number of machines that are not patched for older exploits. The statistics also show a column called "zero-day". These exploits are not zero-days anymore, because Microsoft has patched them; however, this remains the largest percentage of infections.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although we are still collecting statistics, our original research leads us to believe that there are more than 10,000 successful infections of users who have visited one of the malicious sites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have translated some of the Russian from the screen below that appears on their site:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Friends! We would like to offer you multi-component exploit Web-Attacker IE604, that realizes vulnerabilities in the internet browsers Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. With the help of this exploit you will be able to install any programs on the local disks of visitors of your web pages. In the foundation of work of the exploit Web-Attacker IE0604, there are 7 already-known vulnerabilities in the internet browsers: Objective of the Exploit: Hidden drop of the executable from the deleted source to the local hard drive of the site visitor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Bypasses all security measures&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Is not blocked by Firewalls [Agnitum Outpost, Zone Alarm, Sygate Personal Firewall] -Tri-level protection -Flexible installation -Updates -Detailed Statistics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Screenshots are available within full alert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For additional details and information on how to detect and prevent this type of attack:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.websensesecuritylabs.com/alerts/alert.php?AlertID=472" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.websensesecuritylab&lt;wbr&gt;s.com/alerts/alert.php?AlertID&lt;wbr&gt;=472&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7795743915277370885-5884883060806218485?l=technewsinformation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/tech_news_information/~4/zuYJRc0sF4I" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech_news_information/~3/zuYJRc0sF4I/drive-by-installations-of-malicious.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (sclarady)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://technewsinformation.blogspot.com/2006/04/drive-by-installations-of-malicious.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>

