The MVPS HOSTS file was recently updated [Oct-08-2009] http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Download : hosts.zip (146 kb) http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip How To: Download and Extract the HOSTS file http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts2.htm HOSTS File - Frequently Asked Questions http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hostsfaq.htm Note: the "text" version makes a great resource for determining possible unwanted connections ... http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt (602 kb)

Just got back from the Tattoo shop ... 5 hours in the chair ... not a very good photo ... I'll post a better one when the surrounding skin is not so red ...

Yesterday I received notification of my being presented the Microsoft® MVP Award . This is my 11th award ... Thanks Microsoft ...

While researching several suspect domains at Google Diagnostic ... Landing on "uxfl.co. cc" which redirects to a IP address that tries to mimic a Facebook page complete with a bogus Flash player upgrade. As you can see my AV NOD32 jumped up and killed the connection, as the page automatically downloads a malicious file ... Google Diagnostic report for uxfl.co.cc - " Malicious software includes 13 worm(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 25 new process(es) on the target

It sure didn't take long for Adobe to start looking to get a return on it's investment ... as mentioned in my previous post ( Adobe to buy Omniture for $1.8 billion ) Adobe has reached an agreement to partner with ComScore ... ComScore Press Release - there are also several other noteworthy media quotes ... " Through the relationship, Omniture will provide the clickstream data it tracks for its publisher clients, including page views, clicks, video views, mobile interactions, and Facebook

This news surprised most ... but the impact will be far greater than most people are reporting. Omniture (2o7.net) is the largest paid-analytics company (data miners) ... Adobe is the largest (besides it's other products) application (aka Flash) which allows websites to track users via "flash cookies" ... Now you combine these two giants and ... say good-bye to your privacy. The biggest reason is the way "flash cookies" (local shared objects) are stored and the dubious actions

The MVPS HOSTS file was recently updated [Sept-02-2009] http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Download : hosts.zip (146 kb) http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip How To: Download and Extract the HOSTS file http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts2.htm HOSTS File - Frequently Asked Questions http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hostsfaq.htm Note: the "text" version makes a great resource for determining possible culprits ... http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt (600 kb)

On my weekly stroll thru various search engines for the term: "" PornTube: best movies collection ." I usually find 15-20 new malicious sites, all using the same page layout. However I found this one a little different in the bogus message that's produced ... Notice the fake blurring in the background ... and the fake Error message ... " download a patch to fix a problem " ... " blue-xxx-tube. com " redirects to " 4-open-davinci. com " for the actual

The other day there was a disturbing report that found that nearly 90 percent of all pharmacy ads appearing on Bing's sponsored search engine results were illegal pharmacies ... Yikes! ... well most of us already know that "Sponsored Results" are not to be trusted ... I certainly don't think Bing is the only one at fault here ... since the FBI states - " More than 80,000 “portal” websites currently sell ad space for these medications and link to one of more than

Imagine that! ... from Google Diagnostic ... I wonder what malicious software was being distributed on the 15th? So let's click on over to trustlogo.com from the Google Diagnostic report ... The really embarrassing part is that the site mentioned sagunnyu.com appears to use a Comodo certificate ... ouch! == Server Certificate ========== [Subject] CN=sslsecurity.kr, OU= Comodo InstantSSL , OU=Hosted by Jungbonet inc., OU=SSLSECURITY_TEAM, O=JUNGBONET, STREET=Nonhyeon-dong, L=Nonhyun-Dong, S=SEOUL