For an as-yet unannounced project, I need A Few Good Bloggers, for topics such as Gaming (preferrably a girl, to be honest), Aviation (hobbyist, including the VATSim stuff, Flight Simulator, gliding, etc), as well as a “well rounded blogger??? who can do some sports, some humour, some techy gadgety stuff, some movies, etc.
If you’re interested, email me a quick note with your experience, and include 3 sample posts. 1 should be an “announcement”, one should be your opinion on something (the more controversial and witty the better) and one should be a longer free-form post on something (ie: longer being 250-500 words).
Please note: experienced bloggers only. The platform here is WordPress. Familiarity with it is useful, but not essential.
Monthly Archives: July 2005
Hackers Spreading Spyware From Free Personal Web Sites
Attackers are using free personal Web hosting sites provided by nationally- and internationally-known ISPs to store their malicious code, and to infect users with worms, viruses, and spyware, a security firm said Monday.
Websense, a San Diego, Calif.-based Web security and content filtering vendor, has detected a big jump in the use of personal hosting sites, said Dan Hubbard, the company’s senior director of security and technology research.
“The growth of this trend is alarming,” said Hubbard. “July has seen a major boom. In the first two weeks alone we found more instances than in May and June combined.”
In the first half of the month, Websense found more than 500 free hosting sites created to spread keyloggers alone, Hubbard added. Since the beginning of the year, it’s uncovered more than 2,500 such sites.
Although the hosted sites purport to offer up everything from online journals and photo albums to blogs and greeting cards, they all have one thing in common, said Hubbard. “Some type of automation was used to set all of them up, and fairly easily, too.” Because they’re free and easily created, they’re considered disposable by the attacker. The average lifespan of such a site, said Hubbard, was between two and four days. They’re attractive for other reasons as well.
Avant Browser 10.1
Avant Browser 10.1 is really a cool browser. It acts like Internet Explorer, so you won’t have any problems with IE only websites.
Avant Browser is a fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile web browser. Avant Browser is a multi-window browser which features with many functions such as Pop-up Stopper, Built-in Google Searching, Safe Recovery, Integrated Cleaner and Advanced Browsing Options.
Pop-up Stopper: Eliminate unwanted pop-up pages automatically.
Browsing Options: Avant Browser provides options to block download of pictures, videos, sounds and ActiveX components. With these options users can efficiently use their bandwidth and speed up page loading.
Multi-Window Browsing: Browse multiple web pages simultaneously. All opened pages can be easily stopped, refreshed, closed or arranged with one click.
Built-in Google Searching: Avant Browser provides built-in search engine, which is powered by Google, the most powerful search engine in the world. Built-in search engine enables user to search for web pages and images in Internet.
Integrated Cleaner: Help you to keep your privacy and easily clear typed addresses, recently opened pages, web page passwords, cookies and temporary Internet files.
Safe Recovery: If Avant Browser is closed improperly, all open web pages are saved and will be automatically reopened at next startup.
Internet Explorer Compatibility: Avant Browser is compatible with all Internet Explorer functions, including Java Script, Cookies, Real player, Media Player, Internet Explorer Favorites, Macromedia Flash and ActiveX Controls.
Easy Using: Avant Browser comes with more shortcuts. It’s much easier to close or create new browser window.