Pop up ads in Orkut

I saw a pop up ad in Orkut today. This ad is served by an OpenSocial application. There are many OpenSocial applications which serve text ads, but the one I encountered today is a pop up. I hate pop up ads and so others also. This ad is invoked by a JavaScript, which runs by the OpenSource application. And some application can have malicious script, which can be dangerous. So be careful while adding a new OpenSocial application to your profile.

I became Top 250 affiliates of Spread Firefox (SFX)

Today is a great day for me, as I became Top 250 affiliates of Spread Firefox (SFX). Today my rank is 233 with 30 downloads in last 7 days and 32 downloads in total.



And a request as well as an advice, if you are using Internet Explorer, then please download Mozilla Firefox and enjoy best browsing ever.

Why not to forward Spam mails?

You must have got some mails like, someone is suffering from a disease, or someone lost her/his hand or something similar and if you do so, Yahoo or Orkut or someone will pay money if you forward this mail. And sometimes people send some mail if you will forward this mail to 20 friends, Microsoft will gift you $500, like so many offers. And this is from Thirupathy Balaji, if you forward to 21 friends, then you will be lucky. What do people do generally, just forward to their contacts.

The question comes, where do these emails originates? And why people send these spams? How they got benefited? And the simple answer from me is: some sweets spams for bitter spams. When you forward your email to someone or more, you type their email addresses at To, or CC, and very rarely BCC. When your friend forwards this mail, this contains all the email addresses to whom you have sent the same email. In this way the email will reach at the originator or creator of the sweet spam as world is round, so as World Wide End (more complex connections, not simply round as world), will so many email addresses. In this way they will get so many email addresses and spam to them. This is the reason, whenever you surprise to see one spam in your mail box and thinking how do these spammers get my email id?

So my friend, never forward such nonsense sweet spams.

Is this a worm or the script you run in Orkut?

I got one message saying this:

if anyone gets a scrap with this content
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Heya !!
how are you??
Do you know there was a profile in news last night

link :- click here

The about me of This Profile Is Superb.
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PLEASE DELETE IT.. ITS A SELF REPLICATING WORM, WITH VERY LESS HASH TIME. even if you dont click it chances are that it'll self replicate within minutes of ur online session

Regards,
Arnav.

People think that this is a worm and replicating itself. But this is not what happens right there. When you will click on the link, it will take you to the community home page, where you will find a JavaScript and it is asked there to run this script in the address bar of your browser where you browse Orkut. Generally in this script there will be another source of JavaScript, in a file in a server other than Orkut. And when you will run that script, it can access your browsers session and cookies and can do what ever it can do according to the script. It can post scraps to all of your friends in your list, it can also delete them all or can hijack your session, so that the hacker can access the advantage as you logged in. This is the script which replicates the scraps in your list, when you run it, not the worm.
You will also get some scraps to send scraps to all friends in the list. But never do that. Don't run any script in the address bar unless you understand it. Be secure yourself.
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I am thinking to read those scripts and analyze what actually they do. Then I will modify it and host in my server, and I will give you assurance that it will not make any problem for you. But, what I actually need is, I am not getting enough time to do all these. Please inspire me by giving your comments and linking back to this blog.

Got phishing email

Recently I got one email from one phisherman (inspired by fisherman). I mean I got one phishing email. Please check the snapshot of that email.

You can see another web site's address in the tool tip. I followed the link and found a page which ask everything about me and account, credit/debit cards. Even I don't have any account. What I did, I just filled all the bad words in the fields of form and it accepted all without any validation. The email id from which I got the email is also not valid. It is not accepting any reply.
I was known to phishing and I don't have any citibank account. That's why I escaped. It may happen to any other, who is not techie and unaware to this. So if you get any mail like this in future, just delete this and be safe.

FireFox or Opera? But no IE!

Browsers are important tools in the world of Internet. It helps you to browse many types of contents on the WWW. Now we will have a discussion regarding browsers.
Many Internet users know that to access any web page, they have to click on the e icon on the desktop and put the address on the address bar. Most of them don't know what a browser and what is that e software. Some of them knows that it is called Internet Explorer, they don't know there is many applications available other that IE. Most of them are better and advanced that IE. (if you are using IE, then please download firefox and forget to use IE)
Mozilla Firefox and Opera are very good browsers available for free. It was a big problem for me to say which is better. Let's tell me why? I came to use Firefox 1.0, when we started to use it from my college Internet lab Linux machines. But I knew about Opera is also a good browser. So I installed it in my friends Windows system and started using it, and became a fan. But I started using Firefox more by more. It's a journey form FF 1.0 to FF 2.0+. Now when I started using Opera 50 days back, it was a war between FF & Opera in my system. I started using and comparing both. Now the result is Firefox is the winner.
Firefox is more safer than other browsers and it will give you more speed while accessing Internet. It has many features, such as searching from the browser directly, remembering your your username and passwords, etc. You can install many free plugins, so that you can get best experience in the Internet. If you are a web developer also you can install many tools in Firefox as plugin to test and debug your application. Firefox has so many good features that it is difficult for me to explain in one post. Keep watching to know more. And remember do not use IE, use Firefox instead.