Fanbox Fan Emails Continue to Evade Email Inboxes

Several months after fan box spam messages started to appear in people's email inbox, new versions of emails from fanbox keep arriving. The subjects of the fan box mails have also become so varied these fanbox virus messages are likely to entice people to read the email and launch application on fanbox by sending interesting and seemingly personal subjects ( e.g I am giving you a pet, etc).

Thankfully, I have noticed that many of these fanbox scam emails are already filtered out and are marked as spam by my emailing service provider. If you are still receiving these fanboxnotes.com spam messages as legitimate email and you are looking for ways to remove or delete a fanbox account, I advise that you always mark these email messages as spam. This will "train" your email account to consider fanboxnotes.com messages as spam.

Preventing Viruses on USB Drives

Preventing Viruses on USB Drives will reduce the likelihood of malicious programs,files, viruses and malwares being installed in your PC.

USB drives are one of the ways through which computer viruses are spread. I remember that the annoying funny ust scandal virus which is commonly spread via yahoo messenger also infected other computer users who have used infected usb flash drives. Aside from the funny ust virus, other viruses that are spread through USB dongles and flash drives include ravmon and new folder.exe.

The unfortunate thing about USB viruses, however, is that a number of antivirus programs are reportedly inefficient in detecting and removing malicious programs in the USB drives. This is the reason why it is necessary to observe precautions. How do you prevent usb drive virus from infecting your flash drive? Here are some ways to protect usb to get virus:

Avoid plugging your USB flash drives in virus infected PCs. If you can, avoid plugging your USB drives in public computers that are prone to getting viruses. Some computer users complain of seeing new virus in their PCs after they have plugged their USB flash drives in internet cafés.

Install an antivirus software in your USB. I learned about this while scanning through yahoo answers. The portable version of a particular anti-virus can be installed in the USB removable drive to prevent it from getting Trojans and viruses. Read more about it here.

How to Identify a Fake Hallmark Ecard

Spammers seem to be taking advantage of the Christmas holiday season to spread viruses and malwares. Today, I received a message "You've received A Hallmark E-Card!" but after opening the email, I realized the ecard may not have come from one of my friends. Why?

1. The ecard does not contain any of my friends' name.
2. My email gave this warning: "Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information."

Anyway, I tried sending myself a legitimate hallmark ecard and realized what I have previously received is indeed a fake hallmark ecard. Links from these hallmark email cards may contain malware and hallmark card virus. I am not sure though if this is what they call as the hallmark postcard virus or the "postcard from hallmark virus".

Anyway, I made a comparison between the real hallmark email greetings ecard and the fake one. Hopefully this will help people distinguish a real hallmark ecard from the fake one:

	Real hallmark ecard	Fake Hallmark ecard
Subject	A Hallmark E-Card from John Doe*	You've received A Hallmark E-Card!
Sender	Sender's email (example, johndoe@ymail.com)	hallmark. com <notifications@hallmark.com>
Body Content	John Doe has sent you a Hallmark E-Card . If you recognize this name, click the link to see your E-Card. http://www.hallmark.com/ECardWeb/ECV.jsp?a=EG0246331000080M115271Y&product_id= If this name is not familiar to you and you're concerned about online security, please use the following steps: Visit http://www.hallmark.com/getecard Enter your e-mail address in the Original Recipient's E-Mail Address box. Enter EG0246331000080 in the Confirmation Number box. Click Display Greeting. Want to send an E-Card too ? Visit www.hallmark.com/ecards To view Hallmark's privacy policy or for questions, visit www.hallmark.com, and click the links at the bottom of the page.	A Friend has sent you a Hallmark E-Card. If you recognize this name, click the link to see your E-Card. http://www.hallmark.com/ECardWeb/ECV.jsp?a=EG0694272732475M245925860Y&product_id= If this name is not familiar to you and you're concerned about online security, please use the following steps: Visit http://www.hallmark.com/getecard Enter your e-mail address in the Original Recipient.s E-Mail Address box. Enter EG0694262772475 in the Confirmation Number box. Click Display Greeting. Want to send an E-Card too ? Visit www.hallmark.com/ecards To view Hallmark's privacy policy or for questions, visit www.hallmark.com, and click the links at the bottom of the page.

* Assume sender's name is John Doe

Delivery Status Notification (Failure) Email

Spammers are really getting more and more creative. After the MSN featured messages became known as malware spams, spammers are now using commonly sent email subjects. This time they are using the email subject "Delivery Status Notification (Failure) ".

People who have sent email messages and received this delivery status notification (failure) email will likely think that something went wrong with their sent messages and will possibly click on the links on the Delivery Status Notification (Failure)   message to learn the details of their supposed failed email message.

If you receive this email, ignore the links and immediately mark the email as spam.

Blogger Favicon Not Working?

Here's how to fix it:

1. Edit HTML
2. Ctrl+F    and paste this: ]]></b:skin> (Blogger will highlight this part of the code)


3. Copy and remove your old favicon code  (example: <link href='http://..../favicon.png' rel='shortcut icon'/> )

4. Paste your favicon code right after ]]></b:skin>.

Red Mobile Sim

A umobile representative called me the other day informing me that I will be receiving a red mobile sim that will replace my umobile simcard. I do not know why there is a change in branding but there are speculations online that say the objectives of umobile may not have been met and so maybe the change of name may signify major changes in umobile.

I am not actually using my umobile sim card (except in cases when I run out of load and I need to make an emergency call). For one, I only have one cellphone and despite umobile’s notice that sending text messages to other networks like Globe would be possible soon, I believe umobile to globe sms is not yet available.

I hope red mobile will be better than umobile. Some suggestions:

1. Make reloading much easier and more accessible. I consider myself more tech savvy than most of the friends I invited to umobile but I still feel more comfortable reloading my sim card in my suking tindahan. Some of my friends do not even have daily internet access. How can they reload their sims when they run out of load?

2. Make the price more competitive. The 100 pesos minimum reloadable load is actually quite expensive when you compare to Smart’s 30 pesos eload and Globe’s 15 peso load. Red mobile should have better pricing, otherwise, users will merely rely on their load allotment.

Barak caught on tape drunk

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US President elect Barack Obama has become a favorite subject among spam mail senders and recently, phishers and spammers have been making use of scandalous and intriguing Barack Obama stories when sending spam email.

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