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need help please by Rolandp in Trend Micro HijackThis Logs on Sep 07, 2008 at 22:13:29
i have something wrong ...deep blue screen with message that starts Warning :Spyware detected on your pc ...if i open it it is just bringing me to various places to buy software. It has written in a...
Palin May Well Be Dick Cheney Reincarnate by k027 in Politics on Sep 07, 2008 at 22:13:15
Hi JoAnn. Good to have you back.
The article you cited, while attacking Palin, only mentioned Cheney once and only in passing; the author doesn't provide any examples where Palin and Cheney exhibit...
problem logging onto broadband...??? virus ??? by mypinkmonkey in General Computer Problems on Sep 07, 2008 at 22:13:11
Hi guys, I have a little problem logging online and was wondering if its a virus causing it (similar problem with old computer years ago)
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Can Not Get Rid Of Win32.TrojanDownloader.Zlob by oo00oo_sky_oo00oo in Trend Micro HijackThis Logs on Sep 07, 2008 at 21:40:17
have tryed a program called Your Uninstaller 2008 .. i had a adware i couldn't delete till i found that program.. it worked for me :D...
Tried Everything and Now need help with an expert!!! by Kakale in Trend Micro HijackThis Logs on Sep 07, 2008 at 20:39:51
TrendMicro House Call told me that I have a Malaware called WORM_VB.CYC
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FCC is Warning Companies with filing fees |
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The Federal Communications Commission is warning companies with filing fees due that there may be some phishy stuff going on. The FCC has gotten some complaints, it announced yesterday, that (ahem) "nongovernment entities" have been trying to "misdirect parties" attempting to fork over their fee money.
"The complainants have alleged that these non-government websites are attempting to collect financial information," the Commission's advisory continues. The discovery appears to have been made by the law firm of Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, which sent out an alert over the weekend.
Fiscal year 2008 FCC fees are due by September 25. The correct site for paying on-line is www.fcc.gov/fees/feefiler.html. The agency's statement doesn't disclose the domains of these possible rogue sites, but says that its Inspector General will look into the matter.
That's a good idea, because the FBI warned at the Federal Trade Commission's 2007 Spam Summit that over 200 government Web sites have been compromised by spammers and phishers, some used to "blast out spam," as an FBI agent explained. Of course, setting up a phony government site isn't as serious a compromise as penetrating the actual site itself (although this will not console fee filers who inadvertently send their credit card numbers to crooks).
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Work-at-home Web sites settle FTC charges |
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Brothers who operated Web sites promising profits from work-at-home businesses have settled charges that they misled customers with false earnings claims, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said.
The FTC filed a civil complaint against Eric G. Louie, doing business as Fastcashathome.com, Fastcashathome.homestead.com and Hometypers.com; and Calvin G. Louie, doing business as Moneymakingsecret.homestead.com, Realcashprograms.com, and Dataentrypro.com, in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Eastern Division, in November 2006. The six Web sites are no longer operating.
The FTC accused the Louie brothers of inflating earnings potential in work-at-home opportunities involving government grants, mystery shopping, online surveys and data entry.
In the settlement, announced Wednesday, the brothers are barred from further marketing work-at-home opportunities.
The settlement also imposes a US$4.9 million judgment that will be suspended if the brothers surrender assets frozen by the court in 2006; proceeds from the sale of two cars, a Lamborghini and a Ferrari; and any tax refunds for tax years 2005 and 2006. The full judgment will be imposed if they fail to meet the terms of the settlement, or if they are found to have misrepresented their financial condition, the FTC said in a press release.
The Louies charged consumers between $47 and $129 to access Web sites that included “money-making secrets," the FTC said. Their advertised programs either did not exist as represented or did not offer quick and easy money with little time or effort as promised, the agency said.
The case was brought as part of Project Fal$e Hope$, an FTC-led effort that targeted bogus business opportunities and work-at-home scams. The effort has resulted in more than 100 law enforcement actions by the FTC, the I.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and law enforcement agencies in 11 states.
The IDG News Service is a Network World affiliate."
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Proposed FBI guidelines allow investigation sans suspicion |
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey has agreed to postpone implementation of new FBI guidelines, after four Democratic senators raised concerns in a letter Wednesday about proposed changes that they say could permit the FBI to launch investigations of American citizens without any individualized basis for suspicion.
The letter, signed by Sens. Russ Feingold (D-WI), Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), concerned a draft of the Attorney General's Guidelines governing criminal and intelligence inquiries by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The draft itself has not been made public, though The New York Times reports that the guidelines could be released next month.
The proposed rule change, first reported last week, would loosen restrictions on information sharing between agencies, and allow investigators to begin gathering information for criminal or intelligence purpose, even in the absence of any particularized evidence suggesting that a target is connected to criminal activity.
The senators fear that the new rules "might, for example, permit the FBI to conduct long-term physical surveillance of an innocent American citizen; interview such an individual’s neighbors and professional colleagues, including based on a 'pretext' or misrepresentation; recruit human sources to provide information on that individual; or conduct commercial database searches on that individual—all without any basis for suspicion."
In a speech earlier this month, Mukasey defended the change as a helpful clarification and harmonization of the rules that would better codify existing practices and eliminate "artificial distinctions" between criminal and intelligence inquiries. But Michael German, a former FBI agent now at the American Civil Liberties Union, offered a more skeptical take, calling this characterization a tacit admission that the Bureau had already been ignoring its own guidelines.
Pointing to the case of Stephen Hatfill, whose reputation suffered after he was identified as a "person of interest" in the FBI's investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks, German said that "opening an investigation against someone has real consequences." While probable cause would still be required to conduct more intrusive searches, German noted that the resources of the FBI could permit it to gather large amounts of nominally "public" information about a target that would be unavailable to a normal private entity. Calling increased reliance on data mining a symptom of "lazy law enforcement," German said that the proposed guidelines are "one more example of the government's failed policies that aren't getting any results, but are eating up a lot of resources and having an affect on innocent people who haven't done anything wrong —it's like a trifecta."
In a response to the senators' concerns addressed to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Mukasey agreed not to sign off on the new rules until after mid-September hearings at which FBI Director Robert Mueller will testify. Mukasey set a target date of October 1 for making the guidelines effective.
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Nigerian official: |
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People who fall for so-called Nigerian scams aren't victims at all—in fact, they're greedy and should be jailed, according to Nigerian high commissioner Sunday Olu Agbi. He said today that Nigeria has gained a bad reputation because of the scams perpetrated by a minuscule number of people, and that those who find themselves involved with the scams are equally as guilty as those running them.
The Nigerian Government frowns very seriously on these scams... and every day tries to track down those who are involved, Olu Agbi told the Sydney Morning Herald in response to a previous article on Australians falling for Nigerian scams. People who send their money are as guilty as those who are asking them to send the money.
Out of the 140 million people in Nigeria, Olu Agbi said that fewer than 0.1 percent were involved in Nigerian scams. The scams, also referred to as 419 scams or advance-fee fraud, predate the Internet, but have exploded in recent years thanks to the proliferation of e-mail and instant money transfers. Although the scams can take on many forms—from payments for products sold on eBay or Craigslist, to deposits on houses and purchases of plane tickets for rue love on the other side of the ocean—they all follow the same general theme.
Scammers send huge checks to unsuspecting victims with some story attached to explain the overpayment, and the victim is expected to wire back the difference immediately. Eventually when the checks are deposited, they bounce and the victim is out a lot of money. Sometimes, victims are tricked into thinking they'll eventually be paid back and continue to participate in this endless cycle of sending money, especially if the scammer is wooing them romantically (which happens more commonly than one might think, to both men and women).
Although this kind of fraud originates from all over the world, it seems to have an unusually high concentration in Africa and, specifically, Nigeria. This has, unsurprisingly, cast Nigeria in a negative light. Olu Agbi said that Nigeria's reputation for being involved with the scams has even hurt the country's ability to land business deals. [T]hose who want to transact business with us are always very suspicious, he told the newspaper.
Still, Olu Agbi's "blame the victim" mentality won't help Nigeria win any friends, but education on how to spot 419 scams and avoid falling for them can certainly go a long way in curbing their growth. After all, once victims stop blindly forking over cash, scammers will have to figure out some other way to make money.
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