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.