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How Highly Effective Malware Is Able To Infect Your Machine

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Almost everyone now has anti-virus and anti-spyware software on their machine.  How then do so many people still get infected?  PC Magazine has come up with a list of 7 things effective malware does in order to infect and spread that the anti-virus companies have trouble with.
  1. Trick the user. Make them think the program is something they really want to run.
  2. Obscure your code. Use packers and other tricks to make the program difficult to analyze.
  3. Make it as light as possible in terms of size to make the moment of infection faster.
  4. Make it as stealthy as possible so as not to make the user suspect because 'my computer runs slow' or 'what is this process?'
  5. Have as many anti-debug and anti-vm tricks as possible, to avoid today's malware analysis automations. In the end, it will be detected but many hours of not being detected means more time to spread unimpeded..
  6. Make it as flexible as possible. The more tasks it can do, the more profit you can get (password stealing, spam sending, ddosing, click fraud, etc). Typically, it can even be updated to do different or better tasks.
  7. Manage with a bullet-proof Internet infrastructure for handling the malware operation. This is important, and sadly easy. There's more than enough countries and ISPs that don't care very much about people like you and it takes ages to shut down a malware site.
Unfortunately, the easiest of these is probably number1, as many user either aren't educated about security, or ignore all common sense and click on anything that pops up. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Malware

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One Hundred Push-ups

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Remember push-ups in gym class?   Everyone hated them.  For many they were difficult, awkward, or just tiring.  Push-ups however are a great exercise, strengthening many different muscle groups at the same time.   One website is pushing the exercise and has laid out a plan they say will get anyone to be able to perform 100 push-ups in SIX WEEKS.
If you're serious about increasing your strength, follow this six week training program and you'll soon be on your way to completing 100 consecutive push ups! Think there's no way you could do this? I think you can! All you need is a good plan, plenty of discipline and about 30 minutes a week to achive this goal! No doubt some of you can already do 50 consecutive push ups, but let's face it, you're in a big minority. Most of you reading this won't even be able to manage 20 pushups. Actually, I'm sure many of you can't even do 10. However, it really doesn't matter which group you fall into. If you follow the progressive push ups training program, I'm positive you'll soon be able to do 100 push ups!
Give it a try.  Strengthen yourself. 100 Push-Ups

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Why Nothing Gets Done in the Senate....

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Yesterday, a bill had a majority of 56-44 votes in favor of it.  So it won the vote right?   Wrong.  Due to Senate rules, and the absense of anyone objecting, the bill had to pass with 60 votes or more or it failed.  So much for majority.
"The reason the Webb amendment failed even though it got 56 votes was that Senators agreed by unanimous consent that the amendment should have to get 60 votes to pass, even without a filibuster. But why would anyone agree to allow Republicans, who are already on pace to shatter all previous filibuster records, to stop an amendment this important and this sensible without even lifting a finger? And the question here is not just why anyone would allow it, but why everyone did. A single Senator could have put a stop to this simply by saying, "I object" when the unanimous consent request was made. Just one Senator. Yet none did. Not Harry Reid. Not Russ Feingold. Not Bernie Sanders. Nobody. And so the Webb amendment died quietly yesterday, allowing Republicans to enjoy all the obstructionist benefits of a filibuster, without having to stand up and tell Americans and their fighting men and women in the military exactly what they were doing. And not a moment was "wasted" on the "extended debate" that's supposed to make up a filibuster. Everyone just politely agreed that 56-44 would be a losing vote for America's sons and daughters wearing the uniform in Iraq and Afghanistan. And they did it on national television. And America yawned, hit the snooze button, and slept in."
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Back Up! Back Up! Back Up!

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Everyone has data on their computer.  Pictures of family, friends, scenery, or just random snapshots.  Documents, reports, homework, or entire novels.  Also finances, music, favorites, etc.  What many people lack is a way of backing that information up if the computer dies.  Mozy is a great online backup tool.  It uploads your files to a server online so even if your home were to burn down with everything inside it, your data would still be recoverable from the Internet.  It's simple to set up, and best of all, you can get 2 GB of backup for FREE!!   You can also choose to have UNLIMITED backup storage for $4.95 / month.  It's also automated.  No forgetting to back up because of laziness or time. Go here and check it out.

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