My Crappy Mind

November 10, 2008

HowTo: Get Rid of That Bogus XP Antivirus 2008

Filed under: HowTo, Virus — MindCrap @ 11:56 pm
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Nowadays, a very annoying crapware try to disguise itself as an antivirus or antispyware. Often goes by the name XP Antivirus 2008 or XP Antispyware 2008.

As far as I know, this thing doesn’t spread through USB or network sharing. Usually it’s the wrong click at the wrong website with the wrong browser (use FireFox :) )

If you are infected by it, in some variance, it wills annoyingly popup a virus warning that some terrifying gangs of monstrous program have infected your computer. The popup will showup at almost any click, especially in you open IE or explorer. (more…)

July 21, 2008

Move $9.000.000 (Nine Million) USD from West Africa?

Filed under: Annoyance — MindCrap @ 10:44 am
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A letter from West Africa arrive to my yahoo inbox on Friday, 18 July 2008.

Hello Dear Chosen one,

Please excuse me for all the inconveniences my mail could cause you. I saw your profile and have the interest to contact you. Please even if we never knew before, I believe firmly that on the basis of the right of humanitarian assistance that a real confidence can arise from our communication and also a real partnership between us. (more…)

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