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Leap Year Virus 2012 ??

Posted on2012/02/292012/02/29AuthorTruXter1 Comment

It seems that one of the viruses that I reported in one of my previous posts, that obtained on my computer at work, has been bit by the Leap Year Virus 2012.
Everything is running slow.
First clue was I got a notice about “iteratorutils.jsm:117” failed to start. That of course is not a sign of virus, it is a sign that something is running slow, since script time for Mozilla is 10 seconds, The computer is running so slow, it exceeded the 10 second script load time . Not perfect science but enough to get me alerted. Yesterday was a busy day. My computer was running at full speed, smooth and nice. I never once searched anything on the web. I just worked on my drawings and records. Today, slow. Everything is loading at a crawl.

I am now running scans but it seems Microsoft essentials has locked up. And the only thing I have that will run, is spybot search and destroy, and Rouge Killer (linked below). Rouge Killer did find a couple registry anomalies that were labeled regular stuff you would normally overlook, I deleted the instances anyway. My machine might not boot back up because of that. but it’s worth a shot. I am sure the I.T. guy here and I can get the office computer back up and I will report back here as to do or not do what I did. I am sure I have to reboot because what regestry was showing, is that 3 items were loading on start of the computer. Since my computer is still running, then the items are still running and I only removed what starts them.If I don’t report back before you read this….. Don’t do it!.

Will report back when I find more to see if there is an actual virus that has been dormant waiting for Leap Year 2012. Possibly bundled with Antivirus 2012

If you notice the same issues, Please describe below, and check back often. I will be updating this as the day progresses.

**update** Microsoft essentials finally finished update. Scanning now. but so far nothing is showing up.

***Update. I have no idea what happened, 3 hours into my work day, and my computer just started working normal. Reboots really slow now, but it works again.
No virus scanners found anything. So I have no clue if they just don’t have the virus signature yet, or if it was a fluke bug, or what.

Google Or Comcast -Trust

Posted on2012/02/242012/02/24AuthorTruXter

Who do you trust more? Google or Comcast?
One is in your phone and in your web browser and in your toolbar and in your operating system and is very well known for saving your data.
The other is known for throttling bandwidth (implies already capable of filtering your traffic), feeding you super high speeds but setting ridiculously low monthly download max.

Who seems more like they have a scary trick up their sleeve?

[poll id=”16″]

Operation Black March

Posted on2012/02/03AuthorTruXter1 Comment

Operation Black March, if you haven’t heard. Is a call to the public around the world to not stand for the laws that are being created in every country.
The motive is to tell the people funding these law makers, that we will stop buying their products to fund them to fund the law makers.

Operation Black March

This image Appears to be uploaded by a member of Anonymous. (solely based on the stamp at the bottom and nothing more)

This is in response to sopa,pipa,acta and the like while the owners of megaupload were arrested, a judge in Florida shuts down a website for defamation and while France is going after Google because Google gives their maps away for free.

Many are comparing this to the gas boycotts and how useless those were.
Which that is a poor comparison.
Best explained as
by PpcLock on Reddit.

As similar as it may sound to the boycott gas thing.

It is very different and will have a definite impact.

The gas boycotts: last for one day, you will just get gas the next day, and the store will have one low day and one extremely high day. No loss

Media black outs : You don’t have to get media. You can make it to work and you will not be like a homeless guy at a buffet, when the blackout ends.

Operation Black March. An attempt to show the media content owners who pays their bills. and who should not be making the rules.

How you can help in Black March…

Judge takes down website for Defamation

Posted on2012/02/01AuthorTruXter

It has begun.
Sopa didn’t matter. It was going to happen anyway. Acta, doesn’t matter either. They are all going to do it all anyway. They just want a legal name behind such intrusions.

Time for me to take down my review websites.

That’s right. They have begun taking down websites with everything they were going to do with Sopa. Mega upload, was the first .

Now this.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/website-accused-of-defamation-is-closed-by-judge-3005716.html

Censorship at it’s finest.

Sad Fact

Posted on2012/01/232012/02/09AuthorTruXter

We live here. In a wonderful country of freedom and openness. Where the people speak their mind and the press has the freedom to report the truth and anyone can create a movie or a song and get it seen. Where no one’s rules govern us and we do not govern anyone else, since we are so open minded.
This is now false.
We now close down websites that are owned by people who allow people to upload files and download files. Such as different takes and cuts of personal project videos.

We now extradite people from other countries, for breaking laws in our country over the internet, and we take all of their belongings from their house.

Sopa and pipa were supposed to pass, and this was supposed to be the first bust. The machine was already in motion.

This country is going to crap. Eliminate etrade so the longest reigning selfish pigs can continue being pigs.

Want to talk about a depression.

Just wait.

When everyone starts outsourcing EVERYTHING. because to many uppity folks want everything regulated to meet their standards if made here, and then we pay full price though no one has a job anymore because everything is politically correct and outsourced like a good zombie of a country. Then those companies go under because no one is there to bail them out, we get a chance to invest what little bit of a tax money we have, to get them out of debt.

You see all of this right? not just what you are worried about… look at the dominoes as they ALL fall. not just the one with the mp3 player built in it… ALL OF THEM.

Penny Arcade and Ocean Marketing

Posted on2011/12/282011/12/28AuthorTech Review Man

Just read the email exchange between a person named Dave who called the manufacturer (Ocean Marketing ) of some ps3 game controllers. It looks like these are some pretty tough words being exchanged. Near the lower section of the emails, there is a bit of a switch up. It looks as if a second person came in from Ocean Marketing and tried to fix the issue. but then again, It kind of doesn’t. I don’t think Mike from Penny Arcade Caught that. You be the judge.

Penny Arcade Verses Ocean Marketing

But still the person representing Ocean Marketing, if he/she really wrote what we see in these emails, this person really needs to learn how to handle business. because this could very well be a child he is arguing with. No one representing a company’s customer service should ever act this way.

I have been watching the Ocean Marketing topic trending on Reddit and Alexa. Today I finally took the time to read up on it.
Wow. I missed out.

Nice post Gabe

I did find what is shows as a screenshot of the manufacturer’s message saying that they have since broken off connection with Ocean Marketing and their vendor. I have no idea how valid that image is.

ocean marketing Update

The image is located on Reddit

SOPA Could Sopa Threaten Legitimate Reviews?

Posted on2011/12/21AuthorTruXter

While looking at the list of Sopa Supporters, I can’t help but wonder what their motive is for supporting a law that is pitched to stop online piracy. There are shoe companies supporting SOPA. Shoe companies and wire makers.
One wire company is known for selling tv audio cables for $200+ While the quality of the audio from the cables doesn’t get any better than what is produced by the hardware they are connected to. This leads to the whole post here. This company has tons of negative reviews for misleading people into buying a $200 cable that is no better than a $15 cable. If sopa is passed, then saying that company’s name would be an infringement on their intellectual property.

Means I can not tell you the name of the company and warn you who’s company to watch out for.

Is this what the planet has become? Slaves to a corporate world that tells us what we like and assures us it is the best available and does not let us say different?

I will personally boycott every company on that list I linked to. I am not suggesting that you do anything.

Just telling you what I am going to do.. Even if SOPA fails. We think it probably will not.

Stop SOPA Now

Posted on2011/12/172011/12/17AuthorTruXter

SOPA is a law that is described by the law makers as a method to stop piracy on the internet, by blocking websites and their domain name servers,along with the protect-ip law.
SOPA makes major labels, become the powers that be and prevents the independent labels from starting up on the web, because somewhere, anywhere, somehow, something has already been done before.
SOPA prevents people from reporting news independently and getting out real news without a mass media mentality.
SOPA prevents people from telling the world that they are being treated poorly by the governing bodies.
SOPA prevents speech and freedoms.
SOPA’s acronym states that it is to stop online piracy, but it’s build has little to nothing to do with piracy at all.

Law makers get a 9% approval at first hearing so they stated they would reschedule for 2012. Then they snuck in a a December 21st 2011.
Call your local news and tell them what is going on. We need the whole planet to know. You need to tell your friends. You need to email the news papers, the local news, the national news. If enough people do this, then the whole world knows. You have to prove that everyone knows what SOPA is up to and how crooked SOPA really is.