19. February 2008 by Rob.

One of the many Phishing issues on MSN is a site called http://www.msnliststatus.com/?. This site is a phishing site that is setup to steal your msn password. I ran into this Gem because my son was infected with it.

How do you get rid of this one?

1. Change your msn password.

2. Run Adaware/spybot or another spyware program to get rid of it.

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29. January 2008 by Rob.

A member of my girlfriend’s family had a computer tech in today because she is so concerned about her laptop and that it can be hacked. Better a tech than me because I would not go near this one with a 2 mile pole.

The first thing the tech did was take Zonealarm off and just use Windows firewall. What he forgot is the Windows Firewall in XP is one direction and proper security measures require a BI-DIRECTIONAL firewall. For interest sake Vista has a BI-DIRECTIONAL firewall.

Problem number 2 - The tech did all the Windows updates. This includes all the Outlook Express Updates. One of the features in the new Outlook/Outlook Express updates is that Outlook will not allow you to click on a web site directly. The reason for this is to protect the end user of Outlook from Phishing sites. By copying and pasting the URL there can not be anything behind it masking itself.

Phishing is the act of tricking someone into giving them confidential information or tricking them into doing something that they normally wouldn’t do or shouldn’t do. For example: sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft.

This is so funny because this person claims she is paying all this money to protect herself from identity theft. How some people can be so gullible.

Rob

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