Today I received a Trojan email that bears the same handwriting as the recent fake Google Chrome installer emails. Both emails are in German, offer an attached RAR file with what supposedly is an installer for a beta test version of new software from a well-established software company:
Sehr geehrter Nutzer,
heute möchten wir Sie zu unserem [...]
Tags: malware · software · spam
A friend of mine who has been selling PCs mostly to industrial customers for many years long ago told me that twice a year he opens his customers’ computers and gives them a good cleaning with a vacuum cleaner. It prevents many problems, mostly due to overheating when dust builds up on top of computer [...]
Tags: Computers
When ASUS announced its Eee Box B202 back in May, there were going to be three models:
the base model running Linux version with 1 GB of RAM and a 80 GB hard disk for $269,
a Windows XP Home version with the same 1 GB of RAM and 80 GB of disk for $299 [...]
Tags: Computers · Linux · software
Barely had Google announced its new browser Chrome, that malware senders responded by sending out fake emails claiming to provide an installer for the new software. Here is a German message I received:
From: “Steffen Neukirch” <beta-team@google.de>
To: spamtrap-email-address
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 09:26
Subject: [PR] Neuter Webbrowser Chrome erhältlich
Sie benötigen einen JavaScript-fähigen Browser, um diese Software herunterzuladen. [...]
Tags: malware · software · spam
Today I installed the open source router firmware DD-WRT on a newly purchased Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 broadband router. I’m very impressed with its rich feature set and ease of installation.
Months ago a friend had recommended OpenWRT, another open source solution for low cost broadband routers, but following the old “don’t try to fix it if it [...]
Tags: Linux · electronics · software
Today I received a couple of near identical emails in Portuguese that differed only by the (forged) sender address:
From: “Fernanda” <fernandinha@globo.com.br>
To: <joewein@pobox.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 06:29
Subject: Por favor veja isso!!!
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Earlier this summer a friend told me about a way to keep emails out of the Gmail spam filter, which unlike that of Yahoo! Mail can not be disabled. By setting up a filter rule (say, the email contains certain words) and specifying the “Never send it to spam” action for messages that match the [...]