Fake Sites

Lately I see many sites using common misspelling with similar site design to attract users. Today was the first time I was attacked by one such site.

I was searching my own blog on the net to understand who if at all links to it, and got
this dangerous and misleading site. I saw a supposed link to my blog that looked like this (don't follow this one):

http://technorati.com/blogs/qimmortal.blogspot.com

Clicking it I got a Firefox warning asking if I want to run this ".com" application. Evil bastards.

Pre-Installed Trojans

Some hard drives now come with pre-installed Trojans and viruses. Genius!

Always make sure to format your disk on purchase. I wonder if some of the non-original Windows systems out there on bittorrent might have the same viruses. Or if the original MS Windows might also...