Monthly Archives: January 2008

Yahoo! Search Result Abuse

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Our unfriendly neighborhood drug spammers have moved onto something new, they are now abusing Yahoo!‘s search result URL’s. Lets have a look at how Yahoo! search results are shown.

When you do a search in Yahoo! each result displays with a tracking URL to track a users clicks on links to try and improve the relevance of search results this URL is effectively is a redirect URL. Now while you might think this is helpful and to an extent it is, it also causes a problem especially if the referral is not checked against a site.

I have received the following URL in a spam email:

http://wrs.search.yahoo.co.jp/S=2114736003/K=holesteam.com/v=2/SID=w/TID=jp0006_jp0006/l=WS1/R=1/DUI=1/QT=dqp/IPC=jp/H=0/;_ylt=A3xThlIPO5JHaQoBWT.DTwx.;_ylu=X3oDMTFqbm9mZWNuBGNvbG8DdwRsA1dTMQRwb3MDMQRxdANkcXAEc2VjA3NyBHZ0aWQDanAwMDA2X2pwMDAwNg--/SIG=119esggd9/EXP=1200852111/*-http%3A//holesteam.com/

The above URL is the top result for a search on holesteam.com, this domain is the spammers domain.

Real Alternative 1.75 MSI Installer

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So I wanted to deploy Real Alternative 1.75 on my network at work, but low and behold I can’t find a pre-made MSI file that anyone has produced (and publicly shared). So I decided to make one myself.

And unlike all those other snobs I’m going to share it with you all.

Downloads

Notes:

  • This is a full install based on the Real Alternative 1.75 setup
  • It installs Menu Shortcuts in Accessories\Entertainment\Real Alternative
  • “Uninstall Real Alternative” has been removed from the menu shortcuts

Build Process
Download a copy of Real Alternative from Codec Guide. I’m going to make this short and simple. Basically I’ve built a fresh install on Windows XP in Virtual PC, ran Windows Update so that Windows was current, installed WinINSTALL LE 2003 and then Ran through the WinINSTALL process to create an MSI.

Note: When installing WinINSTALL LE 2003 disable your network adapter, this will get you past the registration error.

Google Abuse Update

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Lots of new phrases today, it’s almost like they don’t learn. Although I can say that the inurl phrases are very effective at limiting results.

inurl:afterwere.com canadian
inurl:afterwere.com V6J 5C6
inurl:afterwere.com+V6J+5C6+Vancouver+(210)+787-1711
inurl:thereseason.com canadian V6J 5C6 (210)787
ulster northampton cottonmouth thrum
gill huddle
ideatestcenter
anchorage

Please see original article for details regarding this and why you have received an email that has brought you to this site.

Sun Microsystems Buys MySQL

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Ok so I was reading on ZDNet that Sun Microsystems is purchasing MySQL for US$1billion. Now I don’t mean to raise alarm bells but what is this going to mean for those us who are using MySQL. Is Sun going to push MySQL to a commercial product, or are they going to just add stuff on and sell that. Who knows what their plan is, interestingly they have said nothing about this, at present it’s all guff in media about the purchase and no detail, and as usual the devil is in the detail.

As usual when something that lots of people love and use gets into big business hands we will all be watching.

Google Abuse Update

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Four more phrases for “I’m Feeling Lucky” abuse have been seen today using a mixture of methods previously discussed.

Phrases added to original article:

inurl:rneskimo.com+VPXL+Made+Easy
inurl:rnbdx.com+vpxl+made+easy
qualitygenericmeds
yerbadietpills order system

Please see original article for details regarding this and why you have received an email that has brought you to this site.

New Australia – Guam Link

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Pipe Networks is now ready to begin it’s new international link running from Australia to Guam. The estimated cost of the cable will be about $200million. The links aim is to break a duopoly on international traffic by Southern Cross Cable (SXC) and the Australian Japan Cable (AJC), both of which are majority owned by Telstra and Optus (Singtel).

iiNet has also announced that it will be signing a 15 year agreement to use the cable. Internode and Primus have also signed similar agreements.

Pipe Networks Announcement
iiNet Announcement

Clear Saved Windows Network Passwords

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It can be most annoying sometimes when you try to access files across Windows Shares on a network and come accross an access denied message. The aim of this little function is to allow you to clear saved Network Share passwords from a windows computer.

Go into the start menu, and select Run. Copy and paste
rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr
into the dialog box and click OK.

You will now have access to Stored User Names and Passwords window. AKA – Key Manager

Pirate Software Spammers Join In

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It now looks like the pirate software spammers have joined the “I’m Feeling Lucky” Club.

Example Body:

New Year - nice time to upgrade!
Go For It

kimball ivor

Hidden under the Go For It is an “I’m Feeling Lucky” link, the link is for the following URL:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aso%66t%6Eewmore%2Ecom&btnI=oQvhUNiuWglKkWoQvhU

We can see in this search that tghe spammer has used the site: feature that limits the site that we search on. This is done in an attempt to prevent results from other sites.

Please see original article for details regarding this and why you have received an email that has brought you to this site.