In light of the recent ban of Facebook in Pakistan I’m going to show you how to bypass any web filter,maintain the highest form of privacy, on ANY computer, and without installing any software or visiting lame “proxy” websites! And it’s all thanks to Torfox, a derivative of Firefox and Tor mashed together! Tor uses multiple layeres of cryptography (hence the Onion routing analogy), ensuring perfect forward secrecy between routers (You and your destination). In short, TOTAL PRIVACY, and BYPASSES WEB FILTERS.

Simply go to http://torfox.org/ and download the portable Torfox Zipped package, and extract it to a folder, preferably on a flash drive.

Then run torfox.exe and it will open a slim looking version of Firfox. The first page won’t load right away, it could take up to three mins to connect, but then once it does, you can surf anywhere, without limits or worries!

Screencast coming soon!

Get notified anytime someone accesses your facebook account. Simply use this shortcut to go to your account security settings in facebook. http://r4d.us/fblockdown and then go to “Account Security” then Choose “Yes” and check the SMS box if you want to get a text message anytime someone logs in to your facebook account from an unknown computer. (You then will need to authorize each computer first by logging out, and back in at each pc)

Now the Next time you log in, Facebook will ask you to authorize the computer.

Now if a hacker logs into your facebook account from an unknown computer / location,
you will be notified instantly!

Step 1: Enable the new feature in Account Security

Step 2: Log Off, and then log back in to Facebook

Step 3: Verify: Under Account Security you should now see your computer Listed.

Now if anyone attempts to access your facebook from an unauthorized source, you will be notified!

Effectively blocking Comment Link spam in WordPress

A simple little wordpress setting can save you a lot of  headachs in regards to WordPress Spam Comments…

So I noticed about 330 Spam Comments that needed moderation in my WordPress the other day and that’s when I hit my limit. I hate spammers, and link spammers are the worst. They spam links in comments trying to “Steal” your page rank, or piggy back off of it or whatever. To boost their sites rank in Google. That is the dumbest thing they could do however, because if Google sees 1,000′s of blog comments linking back to your site overnight, Google will ban you. So what’s the point? Why do they do this?

They buy spamming software for hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars, with the promises that Google will love their website and they will make ten times what the app cost. LOL If that were true, why would they DARE to sell their own software? Why wouldn’t they just dominate Google and rule the world? Because they already have! They used the software back when it worked, after the big “G” stopped them, they needed a new source of income. So they go fishing for suckers. It’s those poor dumb sheep that listen to what these “Black Hat SEO Elite” preach and buy into their crappy comment link spamming software.

So if it’s so rampant how do we fight back? Easy, NO links in comments. Period. Not this No Follow crap either. How easy is it to do this? In word press admin go to your Settings section in the lower left.  Then scroll down to the black list text box, and copy paste this in to it.

.a
.b
.c
.d
.e
.f
.g
.h
.i
.j
.k
.l
.m
.n
.o
.p
.q
.r
.s
.t
.u
.v
.w
.x
. y
.z

(One per line) And finally save your settings. This will block any comment that has a .com .cx .ru . anything

Yes, if someone types a sentence and doesn’t space between them it will block it, but IMO that’s worth the effort to effectively eliminate comment link spam. Can they still spam you? Yes, absolutely, but plain words aren’t as bad as them dragging your Page Rank down and making an association from your site to theirs.

Microsoft Drops Win2k, XP SP2 in July

Microsoft offers support for five years and extended support for another five years for their Windows platforms. It will soon be time for Windows 2K and Windows XP SP2, in fact, It’s July 13.

But don’t worry, the self-help online support like the Knowledge Base articles (Kb-#### articles), FAQs, troubleshooting tools, and other resources will be around for at least a year longer. But paid support, support assistance, and MOST importantly, security updates will be discontinued on July 13.

This means that if you’re not hanging with at least SP3, you are running a serious security risk to yourself!

To Check what Service Pack you are running, simply press the Win Key and Pause at the same time (Win + Pause/Break). A box like the following will appear and show information about your system. If you’re not running SP3 on Windows XP, I recommend going to Microsoft Update right away and getting the free update to Service Pack 3.

Ok, listen up, everyone should change their password on facebook right away! A russian hacker by the name of Kirllos is selling facebook accounts on the cheap! He used a combination e-mail phishing scam,  Iphone App, and probbably the other “usual” means of stealing facebook accounts.  Remember getting that Fake Farmville Gift? Wondered why they were doing that? Now you know!

How to protect yourself?

You can’t change what’s done, but he’s selling them cheap while they are still valid. Some accounts have already been confirmed stolen. If your account was stolen, you still have hope. By simply changing your password, the access to your account will no longer be valid and they will not be able to access your account. To change your password, click on Account in the upper right, and then Account Settings, (Or click here https://register.facebook.com/editaccount.php)

Please hurry, and change your password. Use the share links at the bottom of this post to spread this to everyone you know! Don’t let your friends accounts get stolen!!!

You can script UAC on and off with these commands:

Disable UAC

%windir%System32cmd.exe /k %windir%System32reg.exe ADD HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Enable UAC

%windir%System32cmd.exe /k %windir%System32reg.exe ADD HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

Shell Execute these commands with any scripting language, or even just by typing them in! But remember, you or your script need administrator rights.

And optionally, the following comand to suppress all elevation consent request and notification:

%windir%System32cmd.exe /k %windir%System32reg.exe ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem /v ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

And before you ask, yes, that’s the UAC logo from Quake

SPAM. We all hate it, and while there is a ton of different ways to protect yourself from it, the safest, bestest, way, is to

Presenting Scr.im

NEVER GIVE YOUR EMAIL TO ANYONE. lol, But that doesn’t help us get it out there for real people does it?

I recently became aware of this problem; with all the Twitterer’s of the world wildly posting their e-mail everywhere all willy-nilly, their email addresses are subject to the harvesting by robots. Robots crawl websites like twitter (and yes they even crawl my site) so sooner or later you’ll wind up on a spammer list.

We all got caught up in the E-mail sharing twitter storm trying to get Google Wave invites.

So what’s the best way to protect yourself? I found a little website called Scrim (http://scr.im/) There is NO registration required, (nice) all you do is type in your e-mail address, and it generates a tiny URL like this one http://scr.im/811 and anyone who clicks on it is asked to verify that they are human, after which your e-mail is displayed!

Give it a try! Here’s my email address http://scr.im/811

And to anyone who was thinking “I just put email [A T] whereever {dot} com” – Well the bots have been wise to this for a long time, and it only fools the simplest of spam bots, they have long been trained beyond that old trick….

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