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I have published the September 12 2008 COOLSITES Newsletter #182 by Mark Donaldson.
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September 11 2008 COOLSITES Newsletter #182 by Mark Donaldson
In memorial to my cousin William "Billy" Camp.
Billy lost his battle with cancer last week.
He was a good man, a good husband, a good father, a good brother and a good cousin. We will all miss him.
CAMP, WILLIAM WINFIELD, 86 - of Carrboro, NC, passed away on September 1, 2008. William was born on May 5, 1922 in Atlantic City. William was preceded by his daughter, Patricia Della Lang.
World War II Veteran serving in the US Coast Guard as a Higgins Boat (Landing Craft) operator trained at Lake Pontchatraine and then training Marines at Camp LeJeune to scale ships from Higgins Boats. He later served off the coast of England on submarine watch and was then stationed in Iceland for Air & Sea rescue. William had attended, Franklin & Marshall College with MS, Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology with Mechanical Engineering Degree, US Coast Guard Academy Prep School, Atlantic City High School 1941. William's career including, Engineering VP, GTE/Challenger/Westinghouse of PR; Engineering VP, Heinemann Electric Company of NJ. With 12 patents to his name, his inventions included the cordless electric shaver and circuit breakers used in the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs.
William is survived by his wife of almost 59 years, Louise Vezzetti; son Frank W. Camp of NC; daughter, Coleen and her husband Alan Hopson of Oceanport, NJ; grandchildren, Amelia & Ben Lang of MD, and Taylor & Meredith Camp of NC; sister Clementine Camp of Ventnor.
A funeral mass will be held at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, 920 Carmichael Street, Chapel Hill, NC on Monday, September 8, 2008 at 10:00 am. Visitation at 9:30 am before the mass. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Duke HomeCare & Hospice, Office of Development, 4321 Medical Park Drive, Suite 101, Durham, NC 27704, or the charity of your choice. Arrangements made by the Cremation Society of the Carolinas. Online condolences and full obituary can be found at
www.cremnc.com.
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Clif Notes Newsletter, Feb 2007
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"The COOLSITES Newsletter - find the coolest links here. This fella named Mark Donaldson has been sending out his lists of cool sites since 2003. I'd never heard of him before last week. One day I was Googling myself to see who was posting links to my newsletter, and I found his website. I guess he's mentioned my newsletter at least 3 times. I like the COOLSITES website too, but I think it could use some reformatting to make it a bit easier to read. What I really like is the content there. Mark must really read a lot of stuff on the web and he takes the best links then tells you about them."
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Welcome to Clif Notes Newsletter
September 7, 2008
# REVIEWS
1. Google Chrome - did you ask for a new web browser?
2. Revo Uninstaller - sure beats Add/Remove
3. Google Updates Picasa and Picasa Web Albums
4. JavaRa - removing old Java versions
5. SafeSpace - some protection from surfing with sharks
6. Old Newsletter
# TIPS AND FEEDBACK
1. What free software do you need?
2. Adding Applications to the Lupo PenSuite
3. How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail in Windows Mail
4. Comments last week
5. Internet Fixes Weekend Windup
# COOL WEBSITES
1. Take the Jung Typology Test - what kind of person are you?
2. Play with a live spider?
3. CoolSites Newsletter this week
# NEWS
1. SnapFiles.com - new and updated freeware
2. News from Sarah in Tampa
3. Security news from Malware Advisor
4. A view from CyberNirvana
Latest Newsletter
http://freewarewiki.com/ClifNotesNewsletter080907
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Security News
"Websense® Security Labs(TM) ThreatSeeker(TM) Network has discovered a developing "reverse Vishing" attack in China.
The attackers have been posting to BBS fake telephone numbers against the names of legitimate organizations in an attempt to associate those numbers with the customer support numbers for famous Web properties. The use of search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning techniques in this manner shows the increasing sophistication behind traditional telephone lottery scams. If users search for customer support information, the highest ranking Web sites are returned in Baidu or Google search results with the fake phone numbers.
The attackers are using this in two ways. First, they send out spam email suggesting the recipient has been successful in a lottery. Before sending on the requested contact details the user would wish to verify these claims. Upon conducting a search in popular search engines, the user would see the association of fake telephone numbers with the customer support details.
Second, the high-cost telephone numbers are an additional revenue generator for the scam artists, and they add a layer of authentication to the scam. Unlike traditional Vishing where automated voice systems call the victims in order to gain information this attack prompts uses social engineering to prompt the user into calling the fraudulent phone line. As of this morning, our China-based Security Labs team has proven the fake telephone numbers are still active. The messages provide details to convince the user the lottery fund is genuine.
As we have found so far, most of these numbers belong to the Hainan province in China. Many high profile names like Sina, Taobao, QQ, Tencent, etc., from portal sites to shopping sites, have been used as part of the attack. Dozens of fake telephone numbers are being used to lure users into dialing. This makes association with a single attack source more difficult. The scam artists post these fake phone numbers to some popular BBS and message boards because those BBS and message board Web sites have a high ranking returned in search engine results.
To illustrate the scale of the blog spam / comment spam technique used in this attack, Google and Baidu are currently indexing tens of thousands of Web sites containing the fraudulent telephone numbers.
To view the details of this alert
http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Alerts/3174.aspx "
"Websense® Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has discovered an emerging email campaign which uses the US presidential election as a social engineering mechanism to install information-stealing code on a victim's machine. With less than 2 months before the start of the election, emails are circulating with fake news of a sex scandal affecting one of the candidates. Recipients of the email are encouraged to view a video supposedly involving the Democratic candidate Barack Obama. Users who click the link are shown a pornographic video taken from
hxxp://homemade*snip*.com/. While the video plays for 14 seconds, malicious applications are installed on the victim's machine.
The email encourages users to download and run obama-*snip*.exe The MD5 of the Trojan Dropper is 26B861DF715549C537C28E4D60D8D0B7. The pornographic video is ran through Windows Media Player.
The dropper installs 809.exe in the user's Temporary Internet Files folder. Also a Browser Helper Object (BHO) named Siemens32.dll is registered. This is an information-stealing application that posts data to a compromised Finnish travel site,
hxxp://*snip*-hotel.com/
Websense customers are proactively protected against this latest attack as our ThreatSeeker Network identified a malicious IRS scam hosted on the same domain only last week.
Websense Messaging and Websense Web Security customers are protected against this attack.
To view the details of this alert
http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Alerts/3177.aspx "
"National Cyber Alert System Cyber Security Alert SA08-253A Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities Original release date: September 9, 2008 Source: US-CERT Systems Affected: * Microsoft Windows * Microsoft Windows Media Encoder * Microsoft Office XP, 2003, and 2007 Overview: Vulnerabilities in a variety of Microsoft products could allow an attacker to gain control of your computer. Solution: Install updates Microsoft has released updates to address these critical vulnerabilities. The updates are available on the Microsoft Update site. We recommend enabling Automatic Updates. Description: In the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for September 2008, Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Windows Media Encoder and Office. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a vulnerable application to crash. More technical information is available in
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-253A.html "
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Security Links
I get these links from good sources however I do not test the programs myself because I just don't have the time and most new programs won't work on my old 98 system. The definitive source of rogue info is Spyware Warrior- Rogue-Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites:
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm
Apple issues major patch updates for QuickTime, iPod touch:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasi...mp;arti
Identity theft sample letters:
http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/identity-theft-sample-lett...-1282.p
Update. Microsoft Security Releases ISO Image - Sept. 2008 249meg:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e15ba462-d99e...29-a050
Update. Spyware Terminator 2.3.0.494 realtime spyware protection:
http://www.spywareterminator.com/
Update. SUPERAntiSpyware Free 4.21.1004 AntiAdware. AntiSpyware. AntiMalware.:
http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispyware.html
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Windows Secrets Newsletter • Issue 166 • 2008-09-11
Free content posted on Sept. 11, 2008:
TOP STORY
By Scott Dunn
Don't let XP Service Pack 3 hose your system
Multiple problems plague SP3 adopters
Making an upgrade decision that works for you
How to remove SP3 from your Automatic Updates
KNOWN ISSUES
By Dennis O'Reilly
Another XP SP3 approach: burn it to a CD
More than one way to load a service pack
One says install XP SP3, the other says to wait
Beware of insecure webmail services
WACKY WEB WEEK
By Katy Chenoweth
These guys are a bunch of characters!
http://WindowsSecrets.com/comp/080911
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HelpWithWindows Newsletter Volume 11, Number 16 September 6, 2008
http://HelpWithWindows.com
Windows Updates
Microsoft issued a number of updates for Windows Vista & Windows XP in the past weeks:
Windows Vista:
KB957055 - Update to resolve a known application compatibility issue when using Real Networks Real Player11 with a Beta version of Internet Explorer 8 on Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
KB951725 - Install this update for Microsoft Management Console snap-in context Help topics.
KB948473 - Update to resolve an issue in which WHQL test does not finish successfully on a system that is running Windows Vista with multiple display adapters in a Linked Display Adapter configuration.
KB953026 - Update to help resolve an issue where Dxgkrnl.sys may crash your windows-based operating system.
KB954708 - Update to enable XMP metadata with complex data types to be stored using Windows Imaging Component.
Windows XP:
KB954708 - Update to enable XMP metadata with complex data types to be stored using Windows Imaging Component.
http://www.windowsnewsletter.com/current-issue.html
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Free Cloth Totes at Walmart
Walmart is giving away their cloth totes if you return a bag full of their plastic bags for recycling. Just bring the bag inside to their cashiers and ask about them. Mark.
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Mark's Tips
I had a head cold the last two weeks. Normally I keep one box of lotion tissues in stock but last year I forgot to replace them. This time I used a drop of hand lotion smeared on and around my nose several times a day. It worked just as well as lotion tissues. Mark.
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COOLSITES 109 cool links
I harvest what I believe to be the best links from the best sources that are safe, fun, informative, useful and just plain cool. I categorize them and edit their descriptions for clarity. I may make comments about the links but you will know because I always sign them with "Mark".
To see the full newsletter with all of the COOLSITES links please click and bookmark this link:
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