Porn is given some sort of false taboo label. Its black labeled and looked down upon but somehow the porn industry manages to make billions and billions of dollars internationally.

Moral dilemma aside, porn sites have been given a very bad rap due to the huge amount of virus’ put out by malware sites. Lately there have been an uprising of really good virus free porn sites.

And here are just a few:

xvideos
xhamster
redtube
youporn
pornhub
youjizz

*all .com

These are free sites. No membership necessary. And, equally important, they are virus free. These sites make money on the ADs.
My one complaint about them is the pop-under promoting their live cam sites. I am HATE pop-unders. But they are harmless on the sites listed. They have to make money some how.

AutoRun.inf is a primary instruction file associated with Autorun function. Autorun.inf is just a simple text-based configuration file that tells the operating system which executable to start or which icon to use. In other words, Autorun.inf simply tells the operating system how to deal on the programs or executable files and how the operating will treat the contents of a CD or any removable disks that is plug to your computer.

Autorun.inf is not a malware, but a virus might use autorun.inf to get access to your computer programs and files. Common virus like bacalid, ravmon.exe and even Trojan virus hides in autorun.inf to easily spread to your computer. These viruses save themselves in the root directory of the infected hard disks and will run themselves every time you double click the drive. Usually if a USB stick or a CD was infected by a virus, once it was plugged to your computer the device automatically runs itself especially with the device where autorun was enabled.

If autorun.inf was detected by your anti-virus as a threat to your computer but not yet tried to make an action then here are some tips to remove autorun.inf which are infected by virus.

You can disable autorun.inf for all drives by configuring the registry of your computer. First you need to open the registry by typing regedit.exe to the command prompt or you may execute it in run. Then look for this registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Double-click the NoDriveAutorun DWORD entry and type the value HEX: FF (255 in Decimal). (If the NoDriveAutorun does not exists, you can create it by right-clicking the right side area of the regedit window, then click New->DWord Value -> type NoDriveAutorun) Close the registry and restart the computer. This procedure will disable all the autorun for all drives of your computer and at least will prevent the autorun function of infected USB drives or CDs and avoid the infection of viruses like the Bacalid and RavMon.exe.

Another procedure to disable or delete autorun.inf that has been infected by virus is by using the command prompt, type cd\ then press enter. You may type the letter of your USB drive or CD drive, for example F: then press enter. Type this attrib –h –r –s autorun.inf then press enter, type del autorun.inf.That’s the easiest way to avoid spreading virus from your computer especially using sutorun.inf. If you have any questions, you can comment on this post, thank you!

The Star Trek movie was awesome by the way! Great move for a franchise that deserves a larger commercial audience. I’m anxious for more movies and shows.

Emails with pictures of Osama Bin-Laden hanged are being sent and the
moment that you open these emails your computer will crash and you
will not be able to fix it!

1.) If you get an e-mail along the lines of ‘Osama Bin Laden Captured’
or ‘Osama Hanged’ , don’t open the Attachment!!!!

This e-mail is being distributed through countries around the globe,
but mainly in the US and Israel.

Be considerate & send this warning to whomever you know..

PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS.

2.) You should be alert during the next few days:

Do not open any message with an attached file called ‘Invitation’
regardless of who sent it.

It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch which ‘burns’ the whole hard
disc C of your computer!!!!

This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address
in his/her contact list, that is why you should send this E-Mail to all
your contacts.

It is better to receive this message 25 times than to receive the virus
and open it.

If you receive e-mail called ‘invitation’, though sent by a friend. Do
not open it!!! Shut down your computer immediately!!!!

This is the worst virus announced by CNN, it has been classified by
Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever.

This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair
yet for this kind of virus.

This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the
vital information is kept.

In the November 2002, Information Security Magazine article, Infosec’s Worst NightMares, Ed Skoudis lists the Top 5 Worst Attacks of 1998 – 2002. Mr. Skoudis is the founders of Intelguardians Network Intelligence, LLC and is a handler of the very popular Internet Storm Center.

Mr. Skoudis mentions that the Top five major destructive attacks of 1998 – 2002 made many industries “battle-tested” and more likely to be proactive rather than reactive. The 5 year Worst Skoudis list is based on exploits that shook our very faith in the Internet and security of e-commerce.

1. Code Red (2001). July 13 2001, the worm attacked Microsoft IIS systems. By 19 July 2001, the worm had affected over 350,000 systems. SANS and Honeynet Project set up honey pots to capture the worm. But E-eye Digital Security Programmers did the most intense research on the worm and also named it. The worm exploited a vulnerability in the indexing software distributed with IIS, described in Microsoft’s MS01-033 patch. It was a buffer overflow attack. Some of the lessons learned: Keep systems patched, use of honey pots to capture malware, coordinated response helps to contain worms.

2. Nimda (2001). Shortly after 9/11, the Nimda worm was unleashed. It caused more damage financially than Code Red. There were rumors that it was China that released it to hurt the US further, but this is unlikely due to the nature of Nimda.

While it was bad, it had the appearance of a being written by a determined amateur, not a nation-state that spends $1 Billion annually on cyberwarfare capabilities. – Skoudis.

Nimda affected Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, or 2000 and servers running Windows NT and 2000. It was so affective because it attacked IIS, e-mail, browsers and network shares. This multi dimensional attack method could mark a trend in future cyberfare.

Lessons Learned: The importance of an incident response capability, disabling arbitrary scripts in e-mail and browsers.

3. Melissa (1999) & LoveLetter (2000). Both of these exploited malware through e-mail propagation. Melissa used Microsoft Word Macro virus and LoveLetter (I Love You Virus). The worm harvested the victims address book to forward itself to more victims which killed a lot of email servers. Lessons Learned: Many companies got serious about implementing anti-virus applications throughout the network.

4. Distributed Denial-of-Service (DdoS) attacks (2000). After all the panic of pre-Y2K, a completely new and unexpected storm hit major sites: Yahoo!, Amazon, CNN, E*Trade ZDNet and eBay. All by a single child hacker nicked named Mafiaboy. He had spread zombie flooding agents to hundreds of machines around the world and used them to attack sites with billions of useless packets. Lessons Learned: employ anti-spoofing filters.

5. Remote Control Trojan Horse Backdoors (1998 – 2000). In 1998, the Cult of the Dead Cow hackers group created the Trojan, Back Orifice which initially targeted Windows NT/9x. The tool allowed unskilled attackers to attack any vulnerable system. It also marked the rise of the “script kiddies” and produced a bunch of spin offs such as Subseven, Netbus and Hack-a-Tack.

The computer was really slow and essentially un-usable. Malware alarm, I noticed, looks a lot like the scamware PS Guard and SpySheriff. These are applications that pretend to be anti-virus, anti-spam software that actually infect your system with spyware, mass-mailers, and backdoors into your system. This type of the malware is known as a trojan. As usual any attempts to shut this application down or minimized it are useless because even if you do manage to get anything else up, it will eat up so much system resources (CPU, memory, bandwidth) that the computer itself is close to useless. It you delete it in normal mode and miss a part of it, it will regenerate itself like a hydra.

After looking at the Task Manager (which took 20 minutes or so), I decided to reboot in “safe mode”. Unless your system has something like a Rootkit (malware that replaces the main component of your operating system) Safe Mode only turns what is needed and nothing else. I used system restore to remove Malware Alarm. And Spybot Search and destroy/Adaware to remove everything else.

System Restore should be used first because it is easiest and does require any additional software.

1) Reboot in Safe mode: Restart system, hit F8, select “Safe Mode”

2) Proceed in Safemode: When prompted (as in the picture above) Select “NO”

3) Restore Wizard: Select a date prior to when you recieved the malware (system restore does not delete newly downloaded files, only new changes in the registry)

Remove W32/vb.fp and externalvxd.exe

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Yesterday, we analyzed a sample of a new Trojan, called Infostealer.Monstres, which was attempting to access the online recruitment Web site, Monster.com. It was also uploading data to a remote server. When we accessed this remote server, we found over 1.6 million entries with personal information belonging to several hundred thousand people. We were very surprised that this low profile Trojan could have attacked so many people, so we decided to investigate how the data could have been obtained.

– More at Symantec

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Here is an example of the types of bad web sites I'm talking about. 

One of the most aggressive and intrusive of all bad websites on the Internet are serial, warez, software cracking type sites. They bait you with porn, or free software, or software codes. If your guard is down, they sneak some malware onto your system.

Realistically no one should be at these sites. The hold premise behind these websites is bad. It is the equivalent to going to a back alley and buying a “hot” camcorder. The camcorder is definitely stolen, but we conveniently exclude the source of the camcorder from our minds. Serial/crack, warez sites are bad sites featuring stolen goods.

READ MORE about Bad Sites Here.