Archive for June, 2009

MVPS HOSTS File Update June-21-2009

The MVPS HOSTS file was recently updated [June-21-2009]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 filehttp://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts2.htm HOSTS File – Frequently Asked Questionshttp://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 (599 kb)

A disturbing new report on your Internet Privacy

A UC Berkeley report provides an in-depth look into the Internet Privacy issue and to what amount you are really being tracked … several media outlets have reported on this issue. Register | NyTimes | BizJournals  All with their own take on the report … a few key excerpts from their study … Dominance of […]

More fake PornTube sites

I see plenty of these fake PornTube sites everyday … however several sites are trying to trick visitors (nothing unusual) into thinking they need to update their (Adobe) Flash Player … by first displaying an image then it blurs out and the bogus message appears … same type as I spotted here  The “Load Now” […]