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Friday, May 14, 2010

Facebook adding new security measures to their site

One thing I hated about myspace was that spammers began creating accounts sending messages about their products.

Facebook has done in my opinion a pretty good job of keeping spammers or at least reducing the amount of spam on the site.

They have announce that have added more security measures to their site. One of the features is if there are simultaneous logins from your location and lets say a different location from another part of the world it will notify you of the attempted hack. Keep in mind make sure you create password that is not as easy to crack by creating a password with upper and lower case letters with alpa characters. This way it will stop most wanna be hackers from gaining access to your website.

 Anyway here is the article I found. Its good news for facebook users.

New security measures for facebook users.

7 Things you should not do on Facebook

I found an interesting article about what not to do if you have  facebook or even a myspace account.


 I would add on the list never to put your mailing address since if you have a lot of people on your friends list will make it easy for him or her to target your home.

Anyway here is the article. 7 things not to do on facebook

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

McAfee Reimburses for causing computers to shut down.

Found this article on pc news. If your a MCafee user you must read. Apparently the update has caused some computers to be inoperational.

Click to read Mcfee rembuses customers for their pc.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Why Mocospace wont last?

I know in the past blogs I really didn't give to much detail to why I felt Mocospace would not last as a socialnetworking site like its counterparts myspace, facebook.

Although it does share quite a bit of a following based on looking at how many people subscribe to it.

That being said here are a few problems with the Mocospace social networking form I have.

First if your using the Mocospace on your own computer chances are you will have to lower your volume  on your computer. The advertisement pool they use to draw people to it is very annoying. Second if a user does not want to hear and see these types of advertisements on their computer when they go to the site a user will have to pay to take those type of advertisements off so you will no longer hear them.

Second the annoying pop ups when you go from screen to screen. It seems that the site owners of Mocospace don't screen some of their advertisers and provide spamish type of advertising.

Last but not least I'm sure as you read on my last blog their system for some reason has malware which tries to upload onto your computer called antivirus 2010. Its a nasty one which will run and make itself look as though you caught a virus and you need to upgrade an buy the software. be warned this software's goal is to capture your credit card information and who knows what antivirus will do with your software. if you catch the nasty virus go to malwarebites they got a free download to take off the malware.

Thats just my two cents but I hope they read this blog and change some of their revenue strategies because just put simply people will soon leave.

Also if you have a problem with Mocospace chatroom virus here is a link to get rid of the pesky virus from mocospace

So tell me your thoughts or solutions to getting rid of the virus on your computer

Friday, March 26, 2010

Mocospace socialnetwork review.

After looking at Mocospace, not only does their site carry some type of malware the social network
has the most annoying advertisements compared to its counter parts facebook, myspace.
I doubt this site will last long and will turn people away. If you want to socialize mocospace in my opinion is not a place to be.