Category Archives: Nerdology

Ok so you call it Technology!

Mailer-Daemon and Postmaster are NOT your Friend

2022423651 b7c2110c72 m Mailer Daemon and Postmaster are NOT your FriendSome of you may be excited to get email from Postmaster or Mailer-Daemon, but unless you are the Email administrator they are NOT your friend.  There is currently email going out that claims to be a NDR (Non Delivery Report).  This is you sent an email to someone, it failed.  The problem is the NDR does not tell you who the email was sent to.  Just that you sent it.   Ohh but look there is an attachment.  The attachment says Original Message or similar.

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Operation Aurora – Continues

So continuing on from the previous post on Operation Aurora.  We now know that Microsoft had known about this flaw for a while.   Now we will examine the Chinese Governments place in this whole mess.

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Operation Aurora – Chinese Government – More reasons to ditch Internet Explorer

146743083 ab97013e4d m Operation Aurora   Chinese Government   More reasons to ditch Internet ExplorerIf your still using Internet Explorer as your main web browser, I’m sorry.  If you don’t know of other browsers that are available.  Let me point out a couple.  My favorite is Chrome, and my second favorite is FireFox.  If you need a reason to change, let me introduce you to “Operation Aurora”.

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How do you keep updated?

Well I’m not talking about news, we all have our favorite news sites Digg and Slashdot?  I’m talking about Windows Software, not windows itself.  You should have windows update turned on for that.  I’m talking about everything else, how do you keep it updated.  Do you wait for the software to complain that it is old?   Do you have several updaters running in the background, for instance, Java Update or Quicken update?  If so, you are wasting memory and slowing down your system.  What I have found to be the best and easiest way to keep updated is to use, FileHippo.Com Updater

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Zbot Variants Spreading!

14412196 6df76d4f85 s Zbot Variants Spreading!There are several ways to propagate a virus. One of them being social engineering.  This is what the Zbot variants are trying to do.  They are sending emails that seem to come from your service provider, Microsoft themselves, and or your system administrator.

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