Fake Antivirus Warnings

I’m sure many of you working in IT have seen Antivirus2009, or 2008 as the case may have been. It’s a fake antivirus app that gets installed as malware and does who knows what all to an infected PC. A few weeks ago I hit a site that was serving that junk in an add,…

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Facebook

It must be getting popular, I got a 419 scam message on the service today. Yipee! Spammers start to degrade the usability yet another service. Technorati Tags: Facebook, 419, Spam

Always a good warning

As someone who has been job-hunting online, I’ve seen my share of these types of scam emails. I’m glad to see someone getting the word out about these things. The best ones though are the “we can help you get you a job, but we can’t give out any private information about how we do…

Must have coffee…

Yeah, I know, I made a typing error and breakfast in bed turned into breakfast in BAD. I wasn’t trying to insinuate that there was anything but breakfast, I just have this typing/spelling problem. Usually I rely on a good spell check, but, obviously, bad didn’t turn up as a bad spelling so I missed…