Category: Computer Related – Basic

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Email Oz Post Scam

Email Oz Post Scam
This is an urgent notification about a wave of Australia Post imitation emails designed to infect computers with a new Cryptolocker malware which maliciously encrypts local and network files.
Be vigilant, do not click on any links in emails for missed parcel notifications.
The following is an example of an imitation email that is being sent.
The emails are sent from the following or similar addresses:
track@tool-business-email.com
track24@tool-business-email.com
tracker@tool-business-email.com
tracker24@tool-business-email.com
tracking@tool-business-email.com
tracking24@tool-business-email.com
info24@tool-business-email.com
It is important to not click on the link in the email and delete the email immediately.
If you accidentally click on the link in the email, immediately close your browser and do not enter the displayed code which downloads the malicious attachment.

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Tool Claims To Show Google Search Bias

The commenter Yo_its_Me is on the right track. The key issue is not whether or not they can or should do it. The key issue is deception versus accuracy in the adherence to their published definition and public’s understanding of “Search Results”.

If millions if not billions of people believe that Google’s search results are organic, then they should be just that. If the public see an ad and recognise it as an ad. no problem.

If the public see a link to a promoted page and recognise it as a link to a promoted page, again, no problem.

Its when Google elevate a link to a page above its natural ranking and the users cannot obviously see that is the case is where I question the integrity of the process.

I know many people do not even recognise the paid ads at the top of the organic search results as ads.

http://www.webpronews.com/tool-claims-to-show-google-search-bias-2014-10

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Malware Built At Record Rates

If you do not have malware (MALicious softWARE) protection (anti-virus being the simplest example) then you are it is only a matter of time before you are badly stung.
Trojans continue to dominate the threat landscape, according to Panda Security’s latest quarterly report, released Monday.
The anti-virus maker’s research arm, PandaLabs, found that between January and March of this year, more than 6.5 million new malware strains were built, with trojans comprising 75 percent of those. In total, trojans were responsible for 80 percent of global computer infections – a record – far outpacing worms, viruses and adware.
Across the globe, researchers discovered that more than 31 percent of PCs have been seeded with malware, with machines in China experiencing the highest infection rates (around 50 percent). In the United States, PandaLabs said 28 percent of computers are infected nationwide, numbers that roughly correspond to previous versions of the report.
http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/342296,stats-confirm-malware-built-at-record-rates.aspx