Facebook Sponsored Weight Loss Product - spam

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Social Networking Spamming - a new trend of spamming. Yesterday I blogged on how stop Facebook spam that sends  pops-up chat messages with malicious links and today another spam trick appeared.

This is a wall to wall spamming, the compromised account is sending wall messages about Facebook Sponsored Weight Loss Product. I am very sure that the owner is not the one sending those messages.

As I checked the account of my friend, everyone on his friends list received the spam message.

If you received this kind of messages DO NOT CLICK THE LINK and check your apps list and Delete the said App. Also try to change your password just to make sure.

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How to Stop Facebook Chat spam - receiving chat with malicious links

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If you noticed recently that you are receiving Facebook chat with links on it? This are viral spam. The person who is sending you actually have no idea that he's sending such messages because his/her account has been hijacked.  Once click you will post the same message on your wall and you will also sending this via chat box.

The account can be hijacked by Phishers and if you accept application that is malicious. Some uses the "like pages", once you like certain quotes for example, inside of that, is a link directing to phishing site  once clicked it will automatically gather your information especially if you have not secured your facebook account.  Another is installing unknown apps, this apps also gather your account details and most of the recent hijacked account was through this method.

So how to stop  Facebook chat spam?

1. If you see a link post that says "click this",  "check this out", pornographic in nature post, chances are that this post are malicious. So do not click.
2. If you receive a chat with unknown links from a friend that says "click this",  "check this out", pornographic in nature post, chances are that this post are malicious. So do not click.
3. If your account has been compromised, check your application list here and delete the unknown application.
4. Change your password after deleting the applications and change your password regularly.
5. Use your common sense - don't just click and click...


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XAMPP - Apache won't start

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If you are using XAMPP to run a local web server and it so happen that you can not start the Apache Web Server this its quite frustrating right? If you run Apache it will start then immediately will stop?

The culprit is Skype! Skype by default uses port 80 and 443 for its incoming connection thus conflicting Apache default port 80.

The solution for this is to change the default port of Skype.

Go to Skype > Options >  Advanced Settings >  Connections > Uncheck (Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections). After doing this you can now run Apache with no problem.

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How to Make Windows 7 USB Installer

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This tutorial will guide you on how to make USB bootable windows installer. This is useful for installing Windows 7 on systems with no optical drive e.g DVD-ROM.

Requirements:
Copy of Windows 7 Installer
USB Flash drive (4GIG) Minimum
Computer with DVD-ROM

Step 1: Format the Drive
Plug in your USB Flash Drive
Open a command prompt as administrator (Right click on Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt and select \"Run as administrator\")

We need the drive number of your USB Drive, on Command Prompt window type the following:

diskpart
list disk

The number of your USB drive will be now listed.In this tutorial I will assume that your USB drive no. is "1"

Format the drive by typing the next instructions into the same window. Replace the number \"1\" with the number of your disk below.

select disk 1
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=NTFS
assign
exit

The USB drive is now formatted and ready for bootable process..

Step 2: How to make the Drive Bootable

Insert your Windows Vista / 7 DVD into your drive.

Change directory to the DVD’s boot directory where bootsect lives:

d:
cd d:\\boot

bootsect will make your USB bootable and ready for Vista or Windows 7 image. The "g" is the drive letter of your USB just change it to your current USB drive letter.

   bootsect /nt60 g:

We're done!

Step 3: Copy the installation DVD to the USB drive
Step 4: Set your BIOS to boot from USB

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How to Download Windows 7 service pack 1

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Downloading Windows 7 SP 1 via Windows Update is the easiest way to be updated. However the downside of doing this is when you need to update multiple clients. It would take a while if you do this kind of updating. The easiest way to this is to download the service pack via Microsoft download center.

Here is a simple tutorial on how to download the Windows 7 service pack 1.

• Go to Windows Download Center
• You will be asked to validate your system; this is a security measure by Microsoft against pirated copy.
• Download the validator and install it, you will be given a validation code.
• Paste the validation code in the box and that’s it, you can now choose what build you need.
• Download the service pack your windows 7
  
  windows6.1-KB976932-X64.exe (932MB) – Windows 7 64-bit version
  windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe (537MB) – Windows 7 32-bit version
  
  
  
  

Further information:

7601.17514.101119-1850_Update_Sp_Wave1-GRMSP1.1_DVD.iso - This DVD image contains standalone update for all architectures.
windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe - This application installs Sp1 to a 32-bit machine running Windows 7.
windows6.1-KB976932-X64.exe - This application installs Sp1 to a 64-bit machine running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
Windows_Win7SP1.7601.17514.101119-1850.X86FRE.Symbols.msi - Standalone debugging symbols (free) for 32-bit machines.
Windows_Win7SP1.7601.17514.101119-1850.X86CHK.Symbols.msi - Standalone debugging symbols (checked) for 32-bit machines.
Windows_Win7SP1.7601.17514.101119-1850.AMD64FRE.Symbols.msi - Standalone debugging symbols (free) for 64-bit machines. This contains debugging symbols for both Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
Windows_Win7SP1.7601.17514.101119-1850.AMD64CHK.Symbols.msi - Standalone debugging symbols (checked) for 64-bit machines. This contains debugging symbols for both Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.

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MiniBin - empty your trashbin in system tray

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I am not really a fan of having desktop icons cluttering on my desktop screen. So I delete all my icons and put them in a dock. In my case I have a DELL Dock on my Dell Laptop. But deleting Recycle  Bin one major disadvantage is we always forget that we have too my files needed to be deleted.

One tool I found is MiniBin, this enables you to have a Recycle Bin on your system tray. With a mouse click you will be able to empty your Recycle Bin. A different icon will be showed if you have any files that need to be erased from Recycle Bin.

Download MiniBin via Softpedia

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