Agony Column for Comment Spammers
Today we hand over the blog to Ms Letitia Teaspoon, ESET's Agony-Aunt-in-Residence.
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Facebook Sympathy Hoax: No Surprises
No, Craig Shergold doesn't need a heart transplant. Others do, but Facebook sharing isn't the best way to accomplish that.
Urban Myth in the Making
...you can probably guess what I think about the idea of an undetectable virus...
BingDings* Force Change of Tune
* Sorry, but I couldn't resist a Crosby reference. I was more than a little irritated over the weekend – see Faith, Hope, Charity and Manipulation – by Microsoft's use of the Japanese disaster to give the Bing search engine a little extra exposure using a chaintweet technique: How you can #SupportJapan – http://binged.it/fEh7iT. For every retweet,
Ginger Rogers hoax
I've been coming across several references to an email and Facebook hoax relating to a YouTube that's claimed to show 92-year-old Ginger Rogers dancing with her great-grandson. Of course, it isn't: she died in 1995 in her 80s. This isn't a threat: it's a genuine movie and an interesting enough story to stand on its own,
Public Access PCs Booby-Trapped
...keyloggers were found to have been attached to PCs used by members of the public...
Facebook Security Lockdown Guide
..."It" is a ZDNet article - well, more like a slide show - by Zack Whittaker, called January 2011: The Definitive Facebook Lockdown Guide...
Fake Adobe Updates
An email headed “ADOBE PDF READER SOFTWARE UPGRADE NOTIFICATION” has been spammed out recently: of course, it’s a fake, linking to a site that isn’t Adobe’s.