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  • WaveEgreetings.com Scam? or Legit?

    This afternoon I received an email that said the following…

    Welcome to Midwave Products LLC!

    Congratulations Avery,

    This e-mail is to confirm your recent/successful WaveEGreetings.com
    order! Log in online and get instant access to hundreds of E-Greeting
    Cards!

    Billing Telephone Number: **********

    As part of your service with the WaveEGreetings.com program, you will
    receive:
    Unlimited access to ecards for every occasion!
    Send greetings to your friends and family.
    Create unique and personalized greetings.

    Your WaveEGreetings.com account can be accessed by going to
    www.waveEgreetings.com/login.asp and entering in your username and
    password below;
    username: ****************
    password: *************

    For your convenience you will be billed a monthly fee of $14.95 on your
    local phone bill for the phone number you provided which is **********.
    Although, there is no affiliation with your local phone company, these
    charges will appear on your local telephone bill on the Transaction
    Clearing bill page as being billed on behalf of Midwave Products, LLC.
    There is no long term contract and the service can be cancelled at any
    time.

    If you have questions or concerns and need to contact customer service
    just simply reply to this e-mail and we will be happy to assist you.

    You can cancel the service by calling 866-982-3699or by emailing us at
    support@waveEgreetings.com and include your home telephone number or
    simply reply to this email stating “cancel”. Or write us at PO Box 17598
    Suite# 77145, Baltimore, Maryland 21297-1598.

    Thank you and Congratulations on joining WaveEGreetings.com

    Sincerely,
    WaveEGreetings.com Customer Support
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    AT&T ENDUSERS:You have the right to dispute the Midwave Products LLC
    charges billed on your local telephone bill. You are not legally
    responsible for Midwave Products LLC charges incurred by minors or
    vulnerable adults without your consent. Your local telephone service
    will not be disconnected because you fail to pay a charge by Midwave
    Products LLC except that nonpayment of certain regulated
    telecommunication charges may result in disconnection of service in
    Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, South Carolina and
    Tennessee. Enhanced Telecommunications Service Providers may employ
    other agencies to collect delinquent charge, even if your local phone
    company has previously adjusted them from your telephone bill.

    My first thought was that this was a phishing email and I checked out the links in the message and the site of waveEgreetings.com because….

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  • Warner Bros and 180solutions….

    I think somewhere along the line, Warner Bros missed the memo that 180solutions is not a brand that many people would jump to associate with. Apparently 180Solutions has started making two Warner Bros shows (a soap opera and animated series) available for download on some of their sites including zango. Of course, the episodes come with bundled adware downloads which, I’m sure, “enhance your web browsing experience” by popping up relevant ad windows on your desktop.

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  • /bash/rm: argument list too long

    I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this complaint from the bash shell when trying to remove a bunch of files. In this case, I was trying to clear a directory where log rotating had run amuck and there was a 10 second lag in typing ls ∗.gz and seeing any output…. So, I did rm ∗.gz and got bash/rm: argument list too long in response…. So, then I though I could “surgically remove” some files and shrink the list a bit… rm ∗5∗3∗2∗.gz -f; rm ∗5∗3∗1∗.gz -f, etc, etc, etc after about 4 of these it became obvious I’d need to find another way because even some of THOSE gave the “argument list too long” error. (What’s more, it looked like I was going to have to deal with files matching ∗[1-5]∗[0-9]∗[0-9]∗gz – yuck…)

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  • Bittorrent is amazing

    As I type this, I’m downloading a compressed hard drive image from the freeoszoo download page. The download size is about 1.2GB and it’s been BLAZING fast. (286KBps is the top I’ve seen) it’s been going – maybe 20-30 minutes and is 70% through…

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  • Looks as though the FTC has broken up a spyware ring

    A bit of good news on the spyware front, the FTC has announced that it’s frozen the assets of a spyware ring. Apparently they spread spyware through a network of sites and blogs that pushed ringtones, lyrics, and pictures. Good to see some progress made against spyware pushers….

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  • Australian Linux consultancy lodges complaint against Microsoft Windows

    A Melbourne based open source firm has lodged a complaint with that country’s Competition and Consumer Commision against Microsoft. According to The Computer Business Review online, they claim that Microsoft’s monopoly is harming consumers. They are calling for 1) the availability of computers without a preinstalled operating system and 2) the commision to force Microsoft to disclose any information that would allow for interoperability with their software.
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  • Phish down – finally

    Finally, I just checked and ~80 hours since my first emails the Bank of the West phishing site is finally down. (~32 hours since contacting the ISP and 8-10 hours since contacting Bank of the West.) I suspect the ISP probably is the one responsible as I’ve found 24-48 hour response time for ISP’s with virus complaints. (Note to self, first round of complaints should probably go to ALL contacts that might be directly responsible, domain owners, ISP and even spoofed company.) I hate that it took so long, but I’m glad that it’s down. I feel like I actually have accomplished something with all the time I’ve spent on it this week. (more…)