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Currently the malwares are being spread by various means. The attackers are using their social engineering skills to make the victim’s computers compromised. The bad fact is that these people have a very high level of social engineering skills.

Also the people who uses internet and computers with the lack of good knowledge about computers and internet makes it easy for the attackers to infect the computer they are using.

“Erin Andrews Nude Video Scandal” this is a hot discussion topics on lots of discussion boards and chat rooms. The black hats also used this to popularize their malwares. There have been lots of websites offering the video for this. But trust me, Almost 80% of these websites were hosting malwares and they tried to infect the people who visited their websites for watching this video.

So what these hackers did was, they just asked the visitor to download a required codecpack/player to play this special kind of video. If the visitor does not have a good computer background s/he will click on it . Then the download prompt will display. Guess what, Now the visitor became the victim because of the malware just now s/he downloaded. This malware can be used by the hacker to gain full or partial control of the victim through the internet. Thus the victims system can be used even as a webserver by the attacker if s/he wanted to.

So first principle not to get infetced is, being aware of these kind of threats. Always “Prevention is better than cure”.

Now you may say, i ‘ll be more careful now-onwards but what if i already got infected?.

Then let me say, there are lots of resources for you. Like theres always been this opposite energy, for all these bad people who tries to fill this world with their malwares, there are Good people who tries to help all those victims of these attackers. They try very hard for keeping this world safe.

Now let me come to the point why i made this post.

There are lots of forums a.k.a. BBS a.k.a. discussion boards which offers to help you for disinfecting/cleaning your systems. And once your system got cleaned they will provide you guidelines for not to get infected again in future.

These are the lists of those kind of forums i’m aware of:

English Forums:

Dutch Forums/German Forums:

The site which is one of the top 100 websites that are being visited, “thepiratebay.org” is being sold out to to another Swedish company Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) for 7.8 million USD.

The acquisition is set to be completed in August and this will have an effect on the business model of the TPB.

GGF CEO Hans Pandeya added,

“The Pirate Bay is a site that is among the top 100 most visited Internet sites in the world. However, in order to live on, The Pirate Bay requires a new business model, which satisfies the requirements and needs of all parties, content providers, broadband operators, end users, and the judiciary. Content creators and providers need to control their content and get paid for it. File sharers need faster downloads and better quality,”

Anyway the official blog of TPB says

“The profits from the sale will go into a foundation that is going to help with projects about freedom of speech, freedom of information and the openess of the nets.”

Peter Sunde, co-founder of TPB, has told TorrentFreak that The Pirate Bay will be shutting down their tracker and remove torrent files from their servers. After closing the tracker The Pirate Bay will use the torrents of an upcoming third party service which will introduce an API accessible by other torrent sites as well.

Update:Peter Sunde, co-founder of TPB, has told TorrentFreak that The Pirate Bay will be shutting down their tracker and remove torrent files from their servers. After closing the tracker The Pirate Bay will use the torrents of an upcoming third party service which will introduce an API accessible by other torrent sites as well.

Update:

ThePirateBay adds Userdeletion.

According to the tpb blog :

“We are going to build a user deletion interface later today. Many people have asked about having their account removed and we will not force anyone to stay on of course.

However, we also want to point out that we have no logs of anything, no personal data will be transferred in the eventual sale (since no personal data is kept). So no need to be worried for safety. We always care for that.

It also feels a bit sad to see the comments on the previous blog entry. We understand that you’re upset. But we have reasons to do this that we cannot ignore. We need to keep the site going and this is the only working alternative. We cannot finance the growth of the site anymore and we cannot back down. The only way is up and this is the only route to that place.

The support we had, is support we still need. We’ve been fighting for years for you; and yes; you have supported us in that endeavor. We still need you, even if you abandon the site. The important thing is that you keep sharing and keep on saving the internets. We will try to do that, but right now, we need and deserve a break. Some things needs to be reborn and rebooted. Let’s make this into something good!”

The most waited service of thepiratebay.org fans, thevideobay is getting very much closer to fruition.

According to TPB

Because of increased popularity on the closed beta announcement we have decided to give everyone a sneak peak.

TVB is now open for the public too see. You may view the sample clips, browse and register… however uploading is restricted as well as playing clips other than the two samples.

But as per piratebay to use this service, we need the latest browsers.

TPB says

To view any audio or video clips on this site you need a browser that can handle the HTML5 <video> and/or <audio> tag, such as:
Firefox 3.5 beta 4
Opera 9.52 preview
Google Chrome 3
Safari 3.4 & Safari 4

When it eventually goes live, users will be allowed to upload videos with no limits and no censorship. You can expect full streaming movies to be available, and no, they won’t be authorized by the media companies.

Here is a sample of video uploaded to VideoBay:
http://thevideobay.org/sample-video.php

Mozilla has announced they will be releasing the final version of Firefox 3.5, the very last day of the self imposed deadline. The download will be available on their website.

New Features:

• Faster javascript engine called TraceMonkey.
• A Privacy mode, just like IE8 & Google Chrome.
• Location aware browsing.
• Enhanced Scripting Features.
• HTML 5 support.