Monthly Archives: December 2007

Fedora 8 on Virtual PC 2007

One thing about Fedora 8 I have noticed is that if you try to install it in Virtual PC 2007 the video display will be messed up if you use the GUI install. Problem solved.

At the boot screen hit “tab” for additional options. You will want to add “vesa” to the end of the boot parameters to fix the screwed up video problem. Booting at this point will introduce you to the other problem plaguing recent distros in Virtual PC… a non-functional mouse. Fortunately, to fix this as well add “i8042.noloop“.

vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img vesa i8042.noloop

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Forgotten Hope 2.0 Will Be Released on…

It’s on the official Forgotten Hope site, we finally have a day.

Friday 14th December, 2007 at 19:00GMT 🙂

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UPDATE
Forgotten Hope V 2.0 Downloads

P2P:

Full Download

Server Files

The Return of Internode Premium Usenet Access

Didn’t see this one coming, but it’s a good thing for anyone who is and Internode customer. It’s back to the good old days of Premium Usenet access from probably the number one ISP in Australia. To bad I’m not with them at present, although my place of work is. Then again I might consider this to be something that will make me change back to them as this is a very nice value added service for an ISP to offer.

Whirlpool Forum Post

Spammers Refining Google Abuse

Ok, so now they have tried a new trick.

This one is from a Casino Spam (casino-games-pro.com), they are now trying to limit the website that they search on because it was very simple to steal the links before.

http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Agames-pro+intext%3Awon1+million+megabet+from+casino+online&btnI=Lucky

First of all you will see the usual Google search parameters, but notice that they have used the inurl and intext. They are now limiting the URL with inurl, and redirect via the “I’m Feeling Lucky” feature. This means that even if you have the words won1 million megabet from casino online on your page like McAfee AvertLabs does in their blog and are listed first in Google based on that seach, the spam site sill gets the “I’m Feeling Lucky” link because of the inurl feature.

Previous items on this:
Storepeest, a Littile Note
Storepeest Is Back Again
Spammers Abusing Google’s “Im Feeling Lucky” Again
Spammers Abusing Google’s “Im Feeling Lucky”

Storepeest, a Littile Note

Hello Idiots! Ok, maybe you just came here because your cleaver and understand why you have ended up on this page when going to a spam link, or maybe your actually a proper visitor to my site, in that case I don’t think your an idiot.

If you have visited this site because you received an email trying to sell you drugs of some kind, it is not this site sending them. I have nothing to do with it. Simply because my site is ranked higher than these spamming bastards, if I include their words on my site I steal their exploit link away from them. (Thus exploiting the spammers) If you bother to read the previous posts about this below you would learn how this is done, and how easy it is for me to kill their spam message value. Please do not make comments on my site unless they are constructive and relevant to the blog post.

Previous items on this:
Storepeest Is Back Again
Spammers Abusing Google’s “Im Feeling Lucky” Again
Spammers Abusing Google’s “Im Feeling Lucky”

UPDATE
So that I don’t have to make another post about this so quickly, I would just like to let you all know that the “I’m Feeling Lucky” spammers have now moved to a new domain (name2search.org) and are trying again.

There message is as follows:

Order VicodinES, Phentrmine, & All your Favorite Rx-Medz Online Today!
With Fast Discreet Reliable USPS Shipping!
No_Pre_scripti0n_Needed!
Order Now! - ClicK Here

The click here has a URL under it exploiting Google’s “Im Feeling Lucky, this URL looks like this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=name2search+meanwhile+I&btnI=ec

The part of this URL that give it it’s punch is the &btnI on the end. If this wasn’t included it would simply be a search, but by adding this it makes Google think that you have performed an “I’m Feeling Lucky” search. For those of you that are postmasters of a mail server maybe you want to filter for &btnI=ec in your email bodies, this would take care of you ever receiving one of these again.

In this case the phrase used is:

name2search meanwhile I