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  • Removing TROJAN-SPY.HTML.SMITFRAUD Trojan

    My friend around the corner calls me about once a month to clean up his computer.  Usually, its just a simple matter of running
    Adaware or HiJackThis.  But this time was different. 

    I
    was helping my partner clean a trojan off of his Dell the other
    day.  And to my surprise Adaware did not remove it.  It also
    removed the ability to get to the Task Manager in order to view the
    processes and added a link to the desktop. 

    I found out it was called TROJAN–SPY.HTML.SMITFRAUD.  It took more effort than usual to remove, but I did manage to get rid of it with the help of a the Geekstogo! Malware removal forum.  I've found forums to be VERY helpful in getting help cleaing up and securing my home computer with ease.  Here is how I got rid of the Smithfraud.

     http://elamb.blogharbor.com/hacked/removesmitfraud.htm

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  • 'the Screen Savers' is Dead.

      

    The new show is called Attack of the Show (ATOS).  They don’t talk about computer security much or moding a computer like the old Screen Savers.  Its like they took TechTV’s old show Fresh Gear merged it with Screen Savers and added a band and more focus on games. 

     

    I don’t know what kind of marketing statistics drove the folks at G4 to do it but they have left a vacuum.  Although I am blind with fury about the change, I can see how AOTS has a place.  They are trying to appeal to a larger audience.  But in its wake they have left behind all the true geeks who want to know how to dual boot Red Hat and Window 2003.  There is a large market that wants more content on nothing but cool computer hacks. 

     

    Luckily, the old crew from Screen Savers are still giving the same level of content (if not more) to their loyal geek underground that has been quietly stewing and gnashing of teeth on blogs and forums across the Internet. 

     

    List of the old crew:

    Kevin Rose

    Lara

    Alex Albrech

    Patrick

    Leo Laporte (shameless book promos)

    Dan Huard

    Yosh-Dawg

    Keith

    Kat Schwartz (she’s cute) doing podcasts somewhere??

    25 MAY –> FOUND HER GOTO: CATSCHWARTZ.COM

     

    But there is a happy ending here.  Krose, Dan Huard, “Switcherman”  and crew are developing a show called Systm that is supposed to have as much content as the Screen Savers.  And for the truly hard core – Defcon – hacker-wanna-be's there is thebroken.

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