Category: Dumb

Think Before You Click!

Latest news in the world of spy/adware:
Alternative browser spyware infects IE

Some useful citizen has created an installer that will nail IE with spyware, even if a surfer is using Firefox (or another alternative browser) or has blocked access to the malicious site in IE beforehand. The technique allows a raft of spyware to be served up to Windows users in spite of any security measures that might be in place.
Christopher Boyd, a security researchers at Vitalsecurity.org, said the malware installer was capable of working on a range of browsers with native Java support. “The spyware installer is a Java applet powered by the Sun Java Runtime Environment, which allows them to whack most browsers out there, including Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape and others. In the original test, only Opera and Netcaptor didn’t fall for the install but Daniel Veditz, who is the head of Mozilla security, has since confirmed to me that this will also work in Opera and Netcaptor,” he explained.

Well hell… Just remember folks, if you get a message while surfing that tells you to install software and you don’t know what it is DON’T CLICK ON IT! You don’t pull the trigger to see if a gun is loaded do you?
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Trendy Pro-Communism Purses

I wonder what the Chinese equivalent of ‘Engrish’ is. I love stuff like this, my boss tells me that he has seen a shirt, written in Chinese, that says ‘Here comes old whitie’ on the front and ‘There goes old whitie’ on the back. It was being worn by an old white guy in Taiwan. He thinks that the guy knew what it said and has a fully developed sense of humor. 🙂

Trendy Pro-Communism Purses

(Chinese, fashion, Engrish)

Real-life Soap Opera

Arrgh.. My head hurts! How long until a fake town is built here in the states so the American version of this show can be produced…

For Big Brother-Das Dorf, TV channel RTL II has built an entire village just outside Cologne. It includes a bar, a gym, and a market square. In the show, which began at the beginning of March, the contestants have to work either in a farmyard, a car workshop or a fashion atelier. Prize money will be given out bit by bit as a reward for challenges successfully carried out, but the sum will be lost if the contestant leaves the village voluntarily. And with no set end date, they could well find themselves living in it forever. Candidates are divided into three social classes: rich, poor and average. The bosses give the orders and the lower ranks carry out more menial duties. “It seems to be a bit like a social experiment,” says Katrin Brinkhoff, a Berlin-based media psychologist. “And I find it especially interesting to have class distinctions in the programme in times likes these, when a seventh of all Germans are now defined as living in poverty.”

Real-life soap opera