Archive for August, 2007

W3i, LLC Information

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
The company (W3i, LLC) operates under these website domains: Freeze.com Core Demographic: 70% Female, 30-45 yrs Screensaver.com Core Demographic: 55% Female, 25-40 yrs Wallpapers.com Core Demographic: 60% Female, 20-35 yrs My.Freeze.com Core Demographic: 70% Female, 25-40 yrs Ringtone.com Core Demographic: 75% Female, 15-30 yrs YourScreen.com Core Demographic: 70% Female, 30-45 yrs Please warn as many people as you can to avoid this company at all cost. A visitor to my CAAM - Consumers active Against Malware site reported them to me to investigate. She instructed me that upon downloading a free screensaver, her machine became infected with a Trojan and now has a host of problems that she needs help with. After a basic test, my test machine had a trojan within 4 hours of signing up! I have filed formal complaints with several government officials, including the FBI. Anyways, I went to freeze.com and downloaded a free screensaver that: installed a desktop search toolbar, altered my desktop settings, altered my internet settings, turned off Mcafee Virus Scan, and added a hidden (just a blank spot) startup item to my system tray, changed various other settings and installed a new.net Trojan that locked my machine up until unplugging my network cable (broadband). After unplugging from the internet, it took 24 minutes to give me any response to the mouse. After I could get a response, I plugged back into the internet, and IE opened with a pop-up and a new website (PrivacyProtector) that said my machine had traces of spam and I should use their scanner to remove unwanted traces. Upon 'red Xing' the page, it opened another page that locked up IE again. And provided a two pop up's that I could not get rid of. After closing IE and the pop up's with Task Manager, I opened IE again, only to be taken to several spam sites, that locked up my machine again for 11 minutes. During all of this lock up time, I do not know what was done to my m ..

Microsoft and OSI…

Sunday, August 12th, 2007
Microsoft has been quite busy creating Open Source and Shared Source software. If you haven't look around Microsoft's vast website holdings lately, you may not have found Port 25 yet. It is they place to be to discover how they are contributing to the Open Source world. You can learn a wealth of data about the differences in licenses and what all of the fuss is about when it comes to open source software. 32