TruXter Tech

Before going into this, please update your virus scanners now. If you do not have a virus scanner, I have a list of virus scanners below, all of them are free.

Okay back to fixing your facebook photo tagging virus issue.

Hackers Exploit Facebook Photo Tagging to reach more Victims. People are calling this scam the “Facebook Phototag Virus”.

The hacker or virus compromises someone’s Facebook account and then tags their friend’s names into photographs. All of their friends, and then at the footer of the picture is a link to the virus that compromises the account. This makes every single one of the friends of each person tagged, the next person to likely click the link. This of course would lead to hundreds of people per second likely to get this virus through feeling safe on Facebook, and being curious of this post from their friend.

facebook photo tag virus

bunch of tagged names in facebook

Here is another method of using the photo tag to spread the virus

Turn off tagging

facebook virus takes a 180
by using the same method above.
The very second you see one of your Friends or yourself tagged in a photo like that, report the picture as a scam. (it’s on the lower left of the page) and then msg your friend to change their password. Facebook will remove it and kill that link from their site.
Go into your privacy setting, click on Customize

Scroll down and disable these

Include me in “People Here Now” after I check in
Photos and videos you’re tagged in
Suggest photos of me to friends
Friends can check me in to Places

Privacy settings

facebook photo tagging suggestion disable

tagged photos

The old school Users of the internet have known since the start of TINY URL not to click a masked link. But it seems we have a whole new breed of suckers who think no one is out to be violent. Welcome to the real world Facebookers. Hey, it’s ok, we old schoolers fell for this stuff 10-15 years ago also.. In chatrooms and before that bulletin boards and before that, email. It happens with every sort of social interaction online. And every time it changes, the attack changes.
If anyone wants to add to this, feel free to comment below, any other tips than just my own, would be nice.
If anyone knows a good virus scanner, malware scanner post below. I can shoot a list like
*Norton
*Macafee
*avast
*avg
*A-Squared
*Spybot Search and Destroy
*kaspersky
*bitdefender
*f-secure
*CA Internet Security < — my favorite internet security software
*ClamAV
I have embedded a free online virus scanner on one of my pages for this but forgot to link it. It’s not too bad of a scanner either. It used to be called A-Squared until Emsisoft bought them out. And I think some German company got into them. The online virus scanner is more up to date than the downloaded scanner. and yes the downloaded virus scanner is free also.

Here is an old post I made a year or two ago about free virus scanners . all of these are free.

Be sure and scan your computer and then go back to facebook and change your password. or change your password from a safe virus free computer while you scan yours. If that is possible. Just no point in changing passwords if the intrude is still present.

For now Facebook is disabling commenting on posts, with links. So you can only share this directly to your own page or on the wall as a starter on your effected friend or in instant messenger. It will show until you hit refresh. Also as an act of fighting the photo tag virus, Facebook is crashing the images as the come up. “image not available”. until the scammers find a new image and message macro.

****Update****
The latest one is called “My Top 10 Stalkers”. Same junk, same stupid story.
Please turn off photo tagging for yourself so the virus quits tagging you in photos.. Just do it!
****Update****

**update 2.0**
Please repost this on your facebook account for the morons who are far too curious for their own good.

FYI, the girl did not kill herself on cam. She did not kill herself. She is not dead. The link is a virus. Simple enough for ya ?

That one is for the latest virus.
**update 2.0**

And now Facebook has a compatibility tagging that looks just like the virus, to show which of your friends you are most compatible with. Great.

The Real Post about the Face Book Spider Bite scam video

The Facebook Virus takes a 180

Posted on2011/04/10AuthorTruXter1 Comment

The Real Post about the Face Book Spider Bite scam video

From what I see, everyone is calling this one the “Facebook who blocked you virus”.
Pretty simple I guess, explains it very well. Another method of getting a virus on Facebook
The facebook virus we all saw last month that said ” Wow I can’t believe I can really see who looked at my profile”, has now taken a complete turn around and now says
“Just saw who deleted and blocked me on facebook”
and then shows three faces with pad locks on them says 3 mutual friends, 1 mutual friend 6 mutual friends
and then below it says
“Check who has deleted or blocked you
See who your friends really are !
Check it at link in description”
Below the link is another image of the facebook logo with a circle with a hatch mark through it showing that it is anti facebook.
Then there is a bit.ly link. When you click that link. It’s over. Faster than you can hit the back button, your account is stolen and spamming the link out.
You will see this image on a person’s facebook page, and the virus of course tags the image with the name of every user who is a friend of the owner of the page, into this image, so you click it to see why your name is in that image, plus all of your friends see that you are tagged in an image so they look to see what the heck it’s all about, down below the image is a link to a virus that takes your account.

NEW FACEBOOK VIRUS

That, I would have to say is pretty spiffy of the hackers. Very creative. To bad they didn’t think of it before everyone predicted this would happen.

and another version where it tags your friends is like this

Try and not be so vain next time.. will ya

How to fix the Facebook virus issue.

Please start with running a virus scan. Any of a good selection of virus scanners will do. If one virus scanner does not find the Facebook virus, try another. There are many listed on that page.
If you can access another computer, please change your Facebook password from another computer while the scanning goes on.
and delete any posts that link to the virus. GO TO YOUR PROFILE TO SEE ALL THE POSTS YOU MADE. You have to delete them to do your part in containing the issue.

****Update****
This one has grown and morphed and changed to a photo tagging with a linked below it. making friends of everyone who is tagged, susceptible to getting the virus. They call it the facebook photo tagging virus.
Technically it’s not a virus until you click the link below the image. but really, a lot of people trust what’s going on in facebook.
And the team at facebook have started disabling the images and the links. but it kind of crashes a bit. It will still show the image for a while. click the ex to hide the image, but instead select “report spam”
Newer than the photo tagging is messaging someone’s page and saying they can get free stuff while it lasts. i think it’s apple or mac stuff. you know…. useless junk.
***update***

Commodore 64 is back, with the same ol’ look but modern insides | Technology | Los Angeles Times

Posted on2011/04/08AuthorTruXter

Commodore 64 is back, with the same ol’ look but modern insides | Technology | Los Angeles Times.

Story is tha the comodor 64 is back but with teh same look. Well there is something that looks like the comodor 64. but the fact is if it is being released with today’s tehc, then it isn’t actually 64… It’s something greater than 64.

But as a computer lover I want my hands on this computer.

:-)

iPhone 5 release date: Big FAKE

Posted on2011/04/08AuthorTruXter

iPhone 5 release date: Big buzz, few facts – CNN.com.

Apple executives have already confirmed that the iphone5 rumors are fake. There is no current release of the iphone 5 going to happen.

Be real everyone. The Iphone 4 was released less than a year ago. Apple will continue to sell those for as long as people are stilll buying them. Heck the Iphone 3 is still selling like crazy.

So do not expect to see an iphone5 for anywhere less than two years from the original release date of iphone 4

Email From Capitol One About Epsilon

Posted on2011/04/07AuthorTruXter

This was sent to a girl I know that has a capitol one account. She says it is different from what you see in the news.
Of course this pertains to the breech of epsilon by hackers.

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Dear Capital One Customer,

As we have communicated over the course of the last week, Epsilon—a marketing vendor that sends e-mails on our behalf—notified us about unauthorized outside access to files that included Capital One® customer e-mail addresses.

The information obtained was limited to the e-mail address of some customers. No account information or other information was compromised. We’ll continue to provide updates when we have important new information to share. And, we’ll let you know what impact, if any, these developments will have on you.

Protecting our customers’ information is always a top priority for Capital One. We’re working with Epsilon and law enforcement, and we’re thoroughly investigating this incident to help prevent future ones like it. Epsilon is also conducting its own comprehensive investigation in cooperation with the appropriate authorities.

It’s always a good idea to ignore any e-mail that requests your confidential account or login information. And don’t forget, if you get an e-mail you think is suspicious, don’t click any of the links. Just send it to us at abuse@capitalone.com. Then delete it.

We apologize for any inconvenience this unfortunate incident has caused and appreciate your patience. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.capitalone.com.

Sincerely,
Capital One

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If you have no idea what this is about. Epsilon a large company that handles lots of large companies has been hacked. The rumor is that lots of innocent people have their credit card information stolen with this mess.

Problem with Ebay

Posted on2011/04/05AuthorTruXter

I sold my G1 phone on eBay because I need the cash right now. At start I saw the prices they offered for the listing. I selected to start the auction at $90 with $9 shipping. Only one person bid on the phone. So the phone went at $90 and $9 shipping. The money went to my paypal account. Instantly PayPal (owned by eBay) charged me $5 for the transaction. Two days go by and eBay charged me $8 on top of the $1 they originally stated. So now I am down $13 of the $99 received for the sell and the shipping. Now i have to pay $9 for the shipping.
Of the $99 I’m now down $22.
This makes my take on the sell of my cell phone $77. Along with the wait in line at the post office on my lunch break. Because well. I didn’t want to make the buyer wait 1 or 2 extra days while the post office gets around to picking up the package from my house and i didn’t want to shell out more money for the shipping labels provided by eBay. Because really. I just sold one item.
$22 dollars to make less than $100 and the advertisement ran for three days. Heck it took 5 days for the money to transfer from PayPal to my bank account, but just seconds to to transfer from my bank account to eBay to pay off the fees for the listing.

Considering the last time I ran an ad on eBay I got hassled by a scammer who kept sending me payment confirmation emails but no payment was ever transferred.. Really for eBay to be so unsafe, they sure do charge quite a bit of money for you to sell one item and use a max of about 200kb of storage and maybe the same in bandwidth.

So now I plug my own website. My alternative to eBay.

On My Front Lawn is my Garage sale site where I now sell everything i want to sell.

onmyfrontlawn.com

Search Engine Indexing

Posted on2011/04/042011/10/18AuthorTips Of Tech

First get some good SEO Tools and a good webhost powweb if you haven’t already got unlimited domain storage and low yearly fees.
If you can not find your website in search engines (Google, Bing), then your website is not indexed. Or your search term that you think your website is about, is not what The search engines have you indexed as. You need to optimize your website. Optimization is not just about making your website fast. Optimization is about using all optimal components of your websites design, to bring you traffic, and make return traffic to your website. Return traffic to your website means your site has been designed well, looks good and your content is exactly what the person was looking for. This is proper optimization.
So, how do you get your website listed in search engines like Google and Bing?
It’s not complicated to get your website indexed, and you don’t have to buy some software.
We have all seen Google just did it’s huge update to the way it indexes websites. And we see page rank coming back. This is a great deal. We also see relevance to what you are searching for and it’s closest proximity to the location of your ip address. We also see that Google has given us a real time display of results as you type your search into the search field. This fast work on Google’s part. The results are accurate to the existing text and the results change as you type more and refine your search to a more detailed inquiry.
How do you make this work for you?
You have to know how Search engines see your website.
You have to stay with in the guidelines of all search engines. And yes this can seem like a crazy format for writing content to your website, but you have to do it.
Think of your content. What is your article about? Write that word down on a peice of paper , label that piece of paper “keywords”. Try and think of everything that goes with that first main keyword. Like if you are selling locks, your keyword there is locks. What goes great with locks? Maybe a door??? and so on. till you have 15-30 keywords.
Write good legible logical content using the keywords you selected. It does not hurt to say the keywords a couple times. Especially the main keyword. because well it’s all about locks. but do not over do it. Try and set yourself at about 5 times per keyword. This will keep you from filling your page with that one word, and it makes your written content bearable to read by the customer. If Search engines do not like your content, humans surely will not.
Meta tags. You have to use meta tags to tell the search engines what your keywords are.
They look like this .

<META NAME=”KEYWORDS” CONTENT=”keywords,here,use,commas”>

Put your keywords in there and order them by level of importance. Main keyword up front far left. Or you can do them by order of appearance. I do this and it works great for me.

It takes a week or so for Google to find you by the keywords you chose. Your site will be sorted by these keywords, once it is verified as being relevant to your content.

Once your site gets traffic via searches, and said traffic that hits your site, stays with in your site (because your content is actually interesting, relevant to the search, etc.), before returning to searching for the same topic, or the search stops there, Google will then index your website as being relevant to the searches you created your keywords for. Your website will then have one page indexed for it’s content.

You must optimize every single page of your website. When doing that, you must make every page of your website of a value to your company. You must make the keywords for each page of your website relevant to each page alone. Once you have multiple pages that Google indexes as relevant to specific topics, and that each topic is associated to the website in a whole, you will then begin to gain page rank. Once you gain Google rank you will then be considered before websites that do not have rank as being informative for searches related to your website.

Don’t(s)
Do not just create pages on your website, just to have pages. If you are trying to sell a product, you want every page of your website to be an informative ad for one of your products.
Do not make an integrity page. If you want to sell people on how you “stand by your product” or “push forward and make the customer #1 priority”, go start a Facebook page. You are selling a product and if someone lands on that page and no where in that page is anything they are looking for, they will be very upset and will avoid your website next time, because it is a bummer to read everything about how you have honor but never mention how much memory the product holds, dimensions, amount of glow, how many miles per gallon it consumes. It is ok to mention your Honor somewhere in the product description. but not necessary. They are looking for the product.
Do not focus your website in flash. As nifty as you think flash is. Flash is slower to load, Flash is hard to read by Google. Flash is ok as decoration and attention sparkle. But completely useless when getting indexed in Google.
Do not play music on your website. Not everyone likes that song.
Do not over submit your website. if you submit your website more than one time to Google, you will be red flagged as spam. If your website suddenly shows up linked from 1000 websites in less than week, you may draw a bit to much attention to your website. You will get looked at and looked over with a fine comb. If every website that links to you shows the exact same text repeatedly, you will be considered spam and you will have wasted time. Lots of time.
Do not just target your most expensive product. Target your most popular product more than anything. You want to dominate in that product. You know what they are looking for when they find you, now make your site reflect that.

If you feel you must use an SEO company.
To thoroughly get your money worth of your Search Engine Optimization company you chose, Be very descriptive of your company. Make sure the search engine optimization company has deep details of your products. Give them the cut sheets and HOWTO manuals of your products. How the products are used and how they are associated to other products. You can not just call someone and say ” I need my website found in Google and just do not feel like doing all of the work”. Remember, this person works on websites. They know nothing of your product and it will take lots of study for them to build your website as knowledgeable of your product as you are. So it would be in your best interest to have target products, target information and let them know your needs. Otherwise you are just asking a stranger to be your number one sales person. Without training.

Getting your website into search engines such as Google or Bing, is not very complicated. As long as you build your website without stupid cheesy tricks. You know what cheesy is and you know what is a stupid trick. You know that most of the junk you want to put on your website, a 5 year old can see through them. So don’t do it. Just be informative, build clean and be interesting.
PS, Sorry for the typos. I’m sure there are many. I did this with my cell phone.

Selling Custom Gaming Computer

Posted on2011/03/29AuthorTruXter

Have to sell off a great gaming computer. Plays most of the toughest high graphics games to date.

custom computer 3 gig 3 core amd 4 gig pc6400 500gb hd

Custom Pc Image
Xfx 750 a motherboard Black Edition
Amd 3 core 3 gb processor
4 gig pc6400 ddr2 memory
500 gb sata hard drive
Nvidia 250 gts 1gb video card
Slightly custom case with hard drive cooling and front temperature sensor fan speed knob that also doubles as light dimmer
Custom Cooling
No operating system

Sellling My HTC G1 phone with 8GB mem

Posted on2011/03/292011/04/01AuthorTruXter

Selling my Google HTC g1 android cell phone, the first Android.
If you have any questions about the phone, you can ask me here or ask me on ebay. Please enjoy the G1. I did.

I have placed the HTC G1 on EBAY

I am in need of $$ because it’s getting close to time for my house to close SO I am selling off my android phone.

Hope you enjoy the G1.

Please respond below how you enjoy it.

T-Mobile G1 1gb Mem

I have placed the HTC G1 on EBAY

Still has factory Screen Cover. it didn’t have any writing on the factory screen cover so i never removed it when I took the phone from the box.

Phone is reset back to factory. All games and applications I tested on the phone worked perfect. Many useful applications. Tip calculators, grocery lists.

Do a search in google for “android g1 truxter” and see all of the reviews I have done about this phone and it’s software.

This is a very lovable phone. It’s like a small laptop.

Battery Is good compared to most people’s experience with the G1

Included with your purchase is:

HTC G1
Battery
Home Charger
USB Cord
1 GB Memory card
Car Charger
2 carry cases ( 1 factory pouch 1 leather Reiko flap )

Update..
This phone sold for $90 +$9 shipping.
I am going to miss my G1.
The first Android phone type.
I hope the purchaser enjoys this Cell Phone.