Trojan Targets WoW Players. Wants Your Blue Items

A new trojan has been discovered that specifically targets players of the MMORPG World of Warcraft. The trojan transfers account passwords and information to another account where items can then be traded and sold on gray market sites for money and in-game gold. Information Week: MicroWorld, an Indian-based anti-virus and security software maker with offices…

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links for 2006-05-03

Using the XML HTTP Request object A very useful example of an XMLHttpRequest script. (tags: application design developer howto javascript xmlhttprequest Programming XML web http AJAX webdev xhtml) Guide to Using XMLHttpRequest (with Baby Steps) from WebPasties – Step #1 to Step #4 An ajax tutorial that shows you how to dynamically update a city…

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Microsoft Hopes To Curb Piracy With New Campaign

Well it looks like Microsoft is taking further steps to curb piracy this time by using nagware. M&C Tech: Microsoft is enhancing its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) test tool to detect PCs that are not using a properly licensed version of the Windows operating system via an update patch. Alerts will be sent directly to…

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The New Age of Spam

If you’re a blogger you may have noticed spammers have figured out a way around us blocking them by keyword, don’t use keywords. Most of the new spam looks like a real comment until you look at the person commentings link or the links in the body of the comment. Almost all the time it…

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links for 2006-04-25

best-of-craigslist A most enlightening, enjoyable, hilarious, scoffable, risque collection of posts from Craigslist. (tags: funny humor fun craigslist craiglist blog)

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links for 2006-04-20

one red paperclip Spend some time seeing what you can do when you take a little initiative and give it a shot. (tags: funny humor cool blog blogs travel trading Project creative lifehacks ideas inspiration fun entertainment)

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BloggerCon IV is coming to SF!

Looks like Dave is ready for BloggerCon IV and it’s going to be in the Bay Area again which means I’ll be attending. Tentatively the date is scheduled for June 19th but may change. If you haven’t been to one I suggest going. It’s a lot of fun and very eye opening. Dane from www.business-opportunities.biz…

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links for 2006-04-19

Fifty Ways to Take Notes » Solution Watch A great article from over at Solution Watch with a list of applications that’ll help you take better notes or atleast get ’em under control. (tags: business web application development web2.0) Top 10 Best Designed Blogs by Elliott Back A great list of some of the really…

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