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Having considered the expert in Experts Exchange to equate with picking up subscribers, I was interested in Corrine’s post at The Security Garden.

Bah! Experts Exchange = Scam Artists

Last week when I read Ed Bott’s Dear Google: Please take pay sites out of search results, I was pleased to see that I am not the only person who has been frustrated with finding that the search results link led to the Experts Exchange. I have always thought that the site is a sad joke.

Try searching the site or clicking on the Trial Membership link and learn that these scam artists are charging an outrageous fee for information provided/collected by other people.

Hmmm, food for thought. There is a wealth of knowledge and assistance available without having to pay for it, provided by forum volunteers, MVPs and Microsoft. Please see my links in the right hand column on the ‘Articles’ page.

Corrine’s complete article

Update: I was informed one doesn’t have to pay to see the answers, one just has to wade through all the advertisements and shady tactics to get a user to register. Ok but I’m simply looking for responses to a user’s problem by performing a Google search which brings up the links.

All comments and solutions are available to Premium Service Members only.

I tried to take a look at a HJT log attachment and received this message:

You must login to access the file you requested

Signin using your Experts-Exchange username and password.

Why would anyone bother to jump through all the hoops and ads when other free help sites have volunteer experts you can post to, or simply read their answers without all that?

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Paperghost:

Bad enough that this idiot cut and pasted the above text from another, entirely unrelated hacking sites’ mailshot - even worse that he thought it’d be a good idea to send it to me. If I had to sum up the potential for extreme mischief that such a mail could generate, I think this would be a pretty good summary:

Choose! Choose the form of your Destructor!

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I like my digital point and shoot camera, but for Professional Photographers the latest invention may be a boon against Image Theft.

. . . to provide an imaging apparatus that makes it possible to protect the copyright of photographic images by reliably acquiring biological information of a photographer . . . - US Patent Application No. 2008/0025574

Sources:
Schneier on Security
Photography Bay

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Brian Gardner’s Revolution Pro.

Please excuse the construction and use the Blog tab rather than Home for the moment, lots to learn.

It will be fun, no really…

Update: Blog tab is now “Articles”

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I have been a bit busy, bashing Malware and all that.

Couple of interesting items.

EPIC complaint (PDF) filed January 19, 2008 with the FTC against ASK regarding their product ‘AskEraser.’

The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) meeting held in Washington DC has convened. Many well known anti-spyware experts attended, including a fellow forum friend of mine. Go CJ.

Please see:
Spyware: What’s Worked, What’s Left, and What’s Coming.

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The official, full length, high quality version from Channel 10.

It’s a clever funny video which made me laugh, although I also felt a twinge of nostalgia at the same time.

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My hosting company did something in the wee hours that caused 404 errors.

Thank you dgosling and Corrine for notifying me.

My gratitude to a friend in the community known as LWM who was able to locate and resolve the problem.

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One of my favourite bloggers is Paperghost, aka Christopher Boyd, security researcher and malware basher.

After reading his latest entry at Vitalsecurity I thought I’d share this link.

Rise Up With Fists, Strike Down With Vengeance

For the past week or so, I’ve been following a bunch of supposedly uber-cool hackers getting their kicks from phishing, social engineering and fake hacking programs. They make money from their scummery and make no attempts to hide their identities. Their ages ranged from 11 to 13 years old.

PG has such a way with words, it’s a funny read.

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Today is the 10th Anniversary of the public release of WinPatrol.

The majority of new features came as suggestions from friends of Scotty. So, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to all of you who have encouraged and supported my WinPatrol project. It’s been a rewarding ten years.

Reminisce: Bits from Bill

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