If you are looking really cool in your Facebook profile pic, you will start looking scary after reading this. Because, while these sites are fun, the danger is always waiting in a corner.
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We had a nice word called ‘people’ in English which is getting replaced by words like Tweeple, Facebook worms,Myspace maniacs and Orkut addicts; May be, they will even start asking you to show your Facebook profile in order for your personal loan to be approved.
I am going to tell you some scary things here, to take all the fun out of you. Before I talk about the stalkers who killed people after stalking them in their Facebook and Orkut profiles, let me start with some mild things first. And people who post their secrets open in their profiles should definitely read this:
http://www.bukisa.com/articles/320640_how-safe-is-facebooktwitter-and-myspace-the-dangers-of-social-networking
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
New Facebook scam: 'OMG!! This Mother Went to Jail'
There are some online predators wanting to hunt your personal information and they play a lot of tricks to achieve it. I have talked about the Twitter scams and the Facebook issues in my Bukisa articles and looks like this one is recent:
Read the news in Sophos blog:
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2010/07/21/omg-mother-jail-facebook
Read my recent articles on Bukisa regarding these scams:
How Safe Are Facebook,twitter And Myspace? – The Dangers of Social Networking Sites
Warning For Twitter Users: 'get More Followers' Scam
Read the news in Sophos blog:
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2010/07/21/omg-mother-jail-facebook
Read my recent articles on Bukisa regarding these scams:
How Safe Are Facebook,twitter And Myspace? – The Dangers of Social Networking Sites
Warning For Twitter Users: 'get More Followers' Scam
Monday, July 12, 2010
Upgrading to Wife 1.0
Last year a friend of mine upgraded from Girlfriend 4.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that it's a memory hog leaving few system resources for other applications. He is also now noticing the Wife 1.0 is also spawning Child-processes which are further consuming valuable resources. No mention of this particular phenomenon was included in the product documentation, though other users have informed me that this is to be expected due to the nature of the application.
Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself so that it is always launched at system initialization where it can monitor all other system activity. Some applications such as PokerNite 10.3 , Bachelor Party 2.5, and Pubnite 7.0 are no longer able to run on the system at all, causing the system to lockup when launched (even though the apps worked fine before).
Wife 1.0 provides no installation options. Thus, the installation of undesired plug-ins such as Mother-in-law 55.8 and the Brother-in-law Beta is unavoidable. Also, system performance seems to diminish with each passing day.
Some features my friend would like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0:
* A "don't remind me again" button.
* Minimize button.
* Ability to delete the "headache" file
* An install feature that provides an option to uninstall 2.0 version without loss loss of other system resources.
* An option to run the network driver in "promiscuous mode" allowing the the system's Hardware Probe feature to be much more useful/effective.
I myself wish I had decided to avoid all of the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with Girlfriend 3.0 Even here, however, I have found many problems. Apparently you cannot install Girlfriend 4.0 on top of girlfriend 3.0. You must uninstall Girlfriend 3.0 first, otherwise the two versions of Girlfriend will have conflicts over shared use of the I/O port. Other users have told me that this is a long-standing problem that I should have been aware of. Guess that explains what happened to versions 1 and 2.
To make matters worse, the uninstall program for Girlfriend 3.0 doesn't work very well, leaving undesirable traces of the application in the system. Another identified problem is that all versions of Girlfriend have annoying little messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0!
VIRUS ALERT
All users should be aware that Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you try to install Mistress 1.1 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself. Once that happens, Mistress 1.1 won't install and you will get an "insufficient resources" error message. To avoid the aforementioned bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 on a different system and " never" run any file transfer applications(such as Laplink) between the two systems.
FYI: Don't even think about a shared directory!!!!!!!!!
Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself so that it is always launched at system initialization where it can monitor all other system activity. Some applications such as PokerNite 10.3 , Bachelor Party 2.5, and Pubnite 7.0 are no longer able to run on the system at all, causing the system to lockup when launched (even though the apps worked fine before).
Wife 1.0 provides no installation options. Thus, the installation of undesired plug-ins such as Mother-in-law 55.8 and the Brother-in-law Beta is unavoidable. Also, system performance seems to diminish with each passing day.
Some features my friend would like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0:
* A "don't remind me again" button.
* Minimize button.
* Ability to delete the "headache" file
* An install feature that provides an option to uninstall 2.0 version without loss loss of other system resources.
* An option to run the network driver in "promiscuous mode" allowing the the system's Hardware Probe feature to be much more useful/effective.
I myself wish I had decided to avoid all of the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with Girlfriend 3.0 Even here, however, I have found many problems. Apparently you cannot install Girlfriend 4.0 on top of girlfriend 3.0. You must uninstall Girlfriend 3.0 first, otherwise the two versions of Girlfriend will have conflicts over shared use of the I/O port. Other users have told me that this is a long-standing problem that I should have been aware of. Guess that explains what happened to versions 1 and 2.
To make matters worse, the uninstall program for Girlfriend 3.0 doesn't work very well, leaving undesirable traces of the application in the system. Another identified problem is that all versions of Girlfriend have annoying little messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0!
VIRUS ALERT
All users should be aware that Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you try to install Mistress 1.1 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself. Once that happens, Mistress 1.1 won't install and you will get an "insufficient resources" error message. To avoid the aforementioned bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 on a different system and " never" run any file transfer applications(such as Laplink) between the two systems.
FYI: Don't even think about a shared directory!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, July 11, 2010
5 more articles online
I figured that just talking about technical stuff won't give me much traffic to the articles; So did some research on a few subjects online and came up with some interesting topics..
I wrote them yesterday but had to wait until this morning to get the articles reviewed and published. Here are the links:
Do Aliens Exist?
The Most Visited Tourist Attractions of India
Troubleshoot Domain Account Lock Outs Quickly
Can You Speak in 21 Accents?
The Most Watched Films of a Great Indian Actor
Read the one regarding aliens,hope you will like it better than the others..
An if you want to join Bukisa, then please, please do it immediately:
http://www.bukisa.com/join/62539
I wrote them yesterday but had to wait until this morning to get the articles reviewed and published. Here are the links:
Do Aliens Exist?
The Most Visited Tourist Attractions of India
Troubleshoot Domain Account Lock Outs Quickly
Can You Speak in 21 Accents?
The Most Watched Films of a Great Indian Actor
Read the one regarding aliens,hope you will like it better than the others..
An if you want to join Bukisa, then please, please do it immediately:
http://www.bukisa.com/join/62539
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Read my articles in Bukisa
Hi,
Thanks for visiting. I will be updating any change regarding the lockout fixer in future but I will let this blog also be my own personal blog..
I have recently joined Bukisa and have been writing articles for it... Please check out my profile page from where you can find a list of my articles.
http://www.bukisa.com/people/ShanmugamP
You can also join Bukisa if you are interested in writing articles (about almost anything you know, like movie reviews, product reviewes,humor,news and lot of other topics that you may choose from
Thanks for visiting. I will be updating any change regarding the lockout fixer in future but I will let this blog also be my own personal blog..
I have recently joined Bukisa and have been writing articles for it... Please check out my profile page from where you can find a list of my articles.
http://www.bukisa.com/people/ShanmugamP
You can also join Bukisa if you are interested in writing articles (about almost anything you know, like movie reviews, product reviewes,humor,news and lot of other topics that you may choose from
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Lockout fixer v1.0.0.5 is available for download..
Hi,
Lock out fixer is a free tool that helps administrators to troubleshoot the locking out of domain accounts. It works like the Microsoft tool Lockoutstatus.exe but in addition to just checking lock out time for all the domain controllers, it allows you to instantly view the audit failure logs written exactly at the time of the account lock out or bad password time... The event log shows the client i.p address using which we can easily identify the issues...
You can get lockout fixer here: http://lockoutfixer.cz.cc/
I will be updating the tool with more options in the future... Right now, this tool runs in a single thread and hence it may look as if user interface of the tool is frozen if it is doing some time consuming tasks... I will be making it to do those tasks in another thread in the future versions..
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