Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware
Don't know if this is the right place for this or not, but here goes anyway.
I just recently clicked on a link in a post here to a video at the [url]www.yourfilehost.com[/url] site. Shortly after I got there my computer slowed down noticeably, and though I logged off right away, I still managed to pick up a pretty nasty replicating trojan of some kind. McAfee couldn't find it, and I sure couldn't get rid of it even from DOS.
Long story short. Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware free anti-malware utility did a great job, finding a bunch of infected registry keys, dll's, etc. It's available at [url]www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php[/url].
Bigg Mike
Warning about usasexguide.com
Without thinking, I went to usasexguide.com instead of usasexguide.info. The com site brought up a bunch of stuff like free movie clips, webcams, etc. So like an idiot I clicked on one, and got a really really nasty virus. It was a little costly and time consuming. If you go to the com site by accident, leave it right away, don't be tempted to try anything there.
******* barred 90,000 sex offenders
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The online networking site ******* has identified and barred some 90,000 registered sex offenders from using the site over the last two years, ******* revealed to an investigative task force on Tuesday.
The "shocking" number was 40,000 more than ******* had previously acknowledged, according to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, a co-chairman of the task force of state attorneys general looking into sex offenders' use of social networking.
*******, owned by News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media digital division, disclosed the figures to the task force in response to a subpoena.
"This shocking revelation, resulting from our subpoena, provides compelling proof that social networking sites remain rife with sexual predators," Blumenthal said in a statement.
Blumenthal's office said it was awaiting a response to a similar subpoena issued to Facebook, another popular social networking site that his office said also might host "substantial numbers of convicted offenders."
Facebook's Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly said in a statement it was working with Blumenthal's office but said the site had "not yet had to handle a case of a registered sex offender meeting a minor through Facebook."
"Unlike ******* or other social networking sites, Facebook has always enforced a real-name culture and has developed and deployed social verification and powerful privacy rules that allow people to interact in a safer and more trusted environment," the statement said.
Two years ago, ******* commissioned background verification firm Sentinel Safe Tech Holdings Corp. to create a national database of sex offenders after reports that some of its teenage users were abducted by sex predators.
Sentinel operates a U.S. database of sex offenders that includes as many as 120 details for each offender, from their names and addresses to their scars and tattoos, Sentinel Chief Executive John Cardillo said.
Before the national database was created, information on convicted sex offenders was available only locally.
******* said on Tuesday the technology had enabled it to identify 90,000 users as registered sex offenders -- people who have been found guilty of sex crimes and ordered to register with law enforcement officials -- and had removed and blocked them from the site.
"We can confirm that ******* has removed these individuals from our site and is providing data about these offenders to any law enforcement agency including the Attorney General's in Connecticut," *******'s Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam said in a statement.
(Reporting by Edith Honan; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Philip Barbara)
Microsoft Security Essentials
Microsoft has a free anitvirus program thats pretty good and free updates for personnel computers.
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R60
Western Union. How can I keep receiver from seeing my info?
With the Nazi regime now ensconced in the USA, every aspect of our lives is subject to the most intense scrutiny.
I try to send WU and the person I sent the money to says she cannot get it unless I tell her my name, my city, and my phone.
Well, I do not want her to see these things!
WTF!
She has the MTCN, it is a small amount of money. There is a space where I can put a security question. Her name is on it. Why can't she just get the money from WU by presenting the MTCN?
Is this just some local idiocy at this particular WU, or is this WU everywhere?
I finally found a WU that does not require me to present I'd, I use a fake phone number and PO box. But now the assholes on the other end want me to give my info to the chica so she can get the money.
Does anyone have some advice on how to send money annonymously?
To be honest, it is not so much Big Brother I am worried about, as it is all the other idiots. Not to mention the chica on the other side and the s / o back home.
