Be careful, Trojan Michael Jackson More raged

Not yet that old Michael Jackson died, but currently still speculation regarding the spread because of his death. Not only many curious people, but spam then also slavishly 'brisk' Jacko this problem. One spam circulated with the subject "Who Killed Michael Jackson? "That came with the identity of the sender named his X-Files.

In the message spam Jacko gave this one a link, where there is inside information who killed that Jacko. With this click the link, then the user will enter one website, where user afterwards was pushed to execute one file, that contained secret information, to find who the killer Jacko.

However, of course this executable file did not have his connection with the case of Michael Jackson's death or Jacko himself completely, because this was the file of the program data thief, that was detected by the security company Trend Micro this Trojan as TROJ ZBOT. AXY. Trojan afterwards would connect user to the URL address certain, that was automatically downloaded a previous configuration file that contained the website list for the Internet banking. Very much a user visited the website this list, then the site of the spy website will put forward the original bank that appeared in fact false, then user information important property that was put to this website, will be sent to re-Beads user.

However, this spam Michael Jckson could be still being handled by Smart Protection Network (itw.trendmicro.com / smart-network-protection) from Trend Micro, that afterwards was detected and blocked. (h n)

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Lose from facebook, friendster in sold to Asia

If Facebook was experiencing the popularity, it is another matter with the social networking site Friendster , that could also be popular in Asia, especially in Indonesia. Friendster , the social networking site eldest, was currently looking for the buyer and asked for the investment of investors, Morgan Stanley, to find the company that was interested acquiring this company on the whole or bought some of his assets. According to the exclusive document in July 2009 from TechCrunch, apparently Morgan Stanley will sell Friendster in the Asian area, by considering the basis of the popularity Friendster account totalling 75 percent that was registered was in the regional Asian Pacific.

In this document, emerged the fact that many buyers who were attracted by Friendster , Friendster because of that claimed more than 100 million registered users globally was held this site and the social control network in the Asian Pacific area, including the Singaporean country, Indonesia , Malaysia, the Philippines (Simp). This fact also mentioned that Friendster had 100,000 users and just 500 million pages view per his day, made him become a global best 20 site was based on the user traffic. Moreover, also mentioned was that Friendster had 105 headcount the official who was spread in the global network like in the Australian country, the United States, the Philippines, and Singapore.

According to the same document, was that Friendster had mentioned the value of $ 210 million, whereas Facebook have the value around $ 10 billion. Moreover, according to comScore, Friendster last May 2009, experienced the decline of 45 percent the number of unique visitors until reaching 21 million (by taking the difference between an active user was registered only), than last year in the same month. With that statistic in such a bad way him, not surprised if Friendster afterwards and his investors' remove 'his investment in Friendster . (h n)


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