Domain Name and Keyword Registration Scam
This is an email spam scam in which a Chinese domain name registration company emails the owner of a .com domain as follows:
“Subject: xxxxxxxxx Ltd. Notice
Message: Dear Sir or Madam,
We are a global domain name registration center, mainly dealing with
domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights
protection. On Dec. 14, 2009 we received a formal [...]
Google Insights. It’s .com people
Looking for a bargain from the Sainsburys website? What are you going to do, try www.sainsburys.co.uk which is the sensible option, or go to Google and search for sainsburys?
Google has published its most recent trending search topics for the USA and they’re topped by searches for an internationally unknown socialite closely followed at number 3 [...]
We Live in Interesting Times
I was struck by what I thought was just plain over indulgence and quite barmy thinking when I first visited Dubai a couple of years ago. That didn’t change much when we went back there last year.
I just could not figure out where they expected all the people to come from that would fill all [...]
KwikFit and the very expensive brake bits.
Prompted by an odd noise from the front end of my car and short on
time I cruised into the local KwikFit and asked them to check over the
brakes etc. Luckily they were not busy and looked at it there and then.
I went for a stroll while they did. Came back to find that all four
brake [...]
“I’m not upgrading to IE8 because it breaks my website”
I had a brief online discussion with an acquaintance yesterday in which he said he was ignoring Microsoft’s nags to upgrade his browser to Internet Explorer 8.
When I suggested this was wrong, IE8 is probably the best version of Internet Explorer so far, his excuse was as per the headline above.
Apparently he designed his personal [...]
Google is not stealing your content, Mr Murdoch
The big chiefs of the old school news organisations, in particular Rupert Murdoch of NewsCorp and Tom Curley of AP, have been making a lot of noise lately accusing the search engines of stealing their content.
This is of course nonsense and it’s hard to imagine that these apparently intelligent men don’t actually realise that.
At a [...]
Winter Craft Fair at Ayscoughee Hall Spalding
An exciting new Winter Craft Fair with stalls and entertainment for all the family is to take place at Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Hall in November.
The free event will feature a whole host of home grown crafts, talks and demonstrations with something for every member of the family to enjoy.
A wide variety of stalls selling [...]
Hotmail and Google email scam.
So Hotmail and Google email accounts, among others, have been compromised by a series of phishing attacks, and login details including passwords published on the internet.
Here’s a quote from a “security consultant”
“This should be a wake-up call to Google and Microsoft to educate their users”
Carole Theriault, Security consultant
I’m sorry but it’s quite clear from this [...]
Say no to 0870. There’s finally an app for that
It appears that o2 and BT have finally caved in and allowed Apple to add the 0870 application to the iTunes App Store.
iPhone users can now benefit from the cost savings on calls from mobiles previously enjoyed by Android users.
The 0870 app turns 08* numbers, such as 0870, 0845 and 0800, which cost 35 pence [...]
The Malvertising Threat. Or The Drive By Virus Infection.
“We have detected a virus on your computer. Click here to download Anti Virus software now”
If you’ve ever seen that pop up on a website then you have seen a “Malvert”
Clicking on that link will probably take you to an infected website or a link to download some infected software that will cause you some [...]