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Facebook Hashtags

Posted on2013/06/132013/06/13AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

If you haven’t noticed yet. Facebook finally launched their hashtag experiment

What is the function of hashtags in Facebook?
Well. Pretty much the same as on twitter. You make a post, and then put a hashtag next to the word that best describes the #post. This allows people to share content and have it in a specific category for everyone else in the world.

Really this is the very first time I ever saw Facebook actually be a SOCIAL network. because now, you can find people who talk about like minded content.

Where this becomes an issue
People will exploit the hashtags. just as they have done in the past when they hack an account, the hackers will soon start making posts with links and a million and one hashtags in the post covering zillions of topics. Reaching more and more people. Along with tagging friends in the friends list of each victim that falls for the scam. Further reaching more and more people.

#NOW #none #OF #the #POSTS #will #make #SENSE #ONFACEBOOK #despressedblogger

Joomla Bluestork Built in Virus

Posted on2012/10/262012/10/26AuthorTruXter

Found in the error.php file

You can either replace the error page with another, or delete all on the text within the php file with text from a safe error.php file

What happened you say?
My website got shut down by my webhost. They told me there was a virus on on of my websites and told me to upload a safe copy of the website..
Well I don’t have a copy of my website. They have a copy of my website.
but. I couldn’t do anything. SO I downloaded the whole website via FTP. and decided to locate the joomla files the webhost said may be compromised.
To be certain, I downloaded a fresh copy of Joomla, and a fresh copy of blue stork and checked for a virus.
Yep. Sure enough.
The Error page has a virus in it.
I started with a simple scan with EMsisoft Emergency kit
Then moved to virscan.org single virus scanner that uses multiple scanners, to scan one device and shows you what they all find. They don’t all typically agree with each other, so it’s like getting a 2nd 3rd,4th etc opinion all at one time.

Here is the resulting page

I then ran to virustotal website and performed a very similar scan. and got somewhat similar results.
The results

The scary part, is Bluestork has been the default admin theme for Joomla for quite a long time.

It seems there is either a new virus definition going around that is much better defines, or is flawed, or bluestork people really have something to fix.

Either way, it might be in the best interest for Joomla to strip the bluestork theme out of the default themse.

I myself have stripped the error page to no text with in it at all.

Which celebrity you look alike, facebook exploit

Posted on2012/08/082014/10/18AuthorTips Of Tech

UPDATE
This page is coming down because I will not help Facebook if Facebook doesn’t help you.
and it is in your best interest to leave that place. It is everything myspace was becoming when we all left.
Facebook banned me because I will not send them a picture of my driver’s license.
UPDATE

Latest exploit to facebook is the “Awesome, Which celebrity you look alike? : http://www.facebook.com/CelebslikeYou/app_XXXXXXXXXXXXX”

Looks like Facebook has allowed an ap in their network that is exploited. or extremely stupid. I just had 5 female friends fall for that dang thing, and there seems to be only three pictures that the ap uses to tell people they look like. There is no logic to the ap at all. Long face looks like round face, brown hair looks like blond, curly hair looks like straight. Wide eyes look like tiny eyes.

I am not sure if the ap has a virus in it or not, but it looks like it’s bogus and the ap is just used to get you to willingly give up your personal information.
One thing for certain, this is an Exploit in your gullibility.
Here’s how you remove all personal information access that this ap has tricked you out of.

look to the top right of your facebook page
Next to the word “Home” is a triangle pointing down. Click that and select “Privacy settings”.

Now move your mouse to where you see “edit settings” to the right of

Ads, Apps and Websites
Manage your settings for ads, apps, games and websites.

Click on edit settings.

Next you will see a small window section that says “Apps you use” on the right of that you will see “edit settings”

Click the edit settings button and delete everything you no longer care for, including the ap you just installed

Now would be a great time to change your Facebook password also.

Hackers Exploit Facebook Tagging to reach more Victims

Posted on2011/04/11AuthorTruXter2 Comments

The Real Post about the Face Book Spider Bite scam video

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