Thursday, October 09, 2008

Mark Johnston

First day of my holidays so I will take a break from my usual format and to keep things simple will just say follow Mark Johnstonstop at a winner...he has roughly a 50% strike rate over the past few days.

Today's runners
- Holberg (UAE) 14:40 Newbury
- Roman Republic (FR) 15:50 Newbury
- Love Empire (USA) 18:50 Great Leighs
- Neuchatel (GER) 20:20 Great Leighs
- Tartan Gigha (IRE) 20:50 Great Leighs
- Fitzroy Crossing (USA) 21:20 Great Leighs

Good luck

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NetGuide - Popular searches have hidden traps

I think Google is unfairly singled out in this article:
NetGuide - Popular searches have hidden traps: "Written by Duncan Campbell
Wednesday, 08 October 2008
Internet criminals are using search engine optimisation tactics to promote links to free hosted blog sites in an attempt to dupe unsuspecting visitors into infecting themselves with malware and fake anti-virus products, say experts from Marshal’s TRACE threat team...

When an Internet user then makes a search using those popular terms they get multiple links to these hosted blog sites in their search results. If the user then clicks on the link, thinking it is relevant to their desired search, they are taken to a blog site with an apparent embedded video player. If the user clicks on the video player, they are prompted to load a ‘codec’ which surreptitiously loads malware, including fake anti-virus software which promises to clean non-existent viruses from the computer in return for their credit card details.

“Now the criminals are trying new methods of promoting their malicious Web pages that aren’t dependent on spam. Our advice is to not blindly trust results from Google searches, and be wary of these kinds of links to hosted blog sites. Also, if you are unfortunate enough to be infected by one of these fake anti-virus products, do not provide any credit card information or payment of any kind. Use a legitimate and reputable anti-virus solution from a name brand vendor,” said Hay."

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