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Browsing the pages here you will find dedicated information, files, and links - as well as utilities softwares for detecting, blocking, and removing unwanted installations that are the threats beyond Anti-Virus and Firewall protections. These have now become generally known as adware and spyware with others of this general catagory of threats to personal computers and online safety. There has now grown a wide community of help for removal of "badware" from personal computers - very genuine and informed persons along with many professionals. The beginning is learning about the threats and identifying any that may be present on your PC, and then of course clean removal. I hope all things here are very helpful to all interested, and in the different themes of my subdomains, as I myself am involved in all and draw my complete experiences basically as an average consumer, and now Advanced User. The "BlueCollarPC.Net" theme - as owner/operators we all can not be white collar degreed programming experts, but we can all learn how to maintain our computers safely and fairly easily...

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Bulletins: ..... IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL VISITORS..... JUNE 02/03 2008: BlueCollarPC Domain Defaced, Promptly Removed… June 3, 2008 by bluecollarpc http://bluecollarpc.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/bluecollarpc-domain-defaced-promptly-removed/ FOLLOWING HACK OCCURRED AND IS REMOVED JUNE 03 2008…… SOURCE: BlueCollarPC.Net Incident Reports: http://www.bluecollarpc.net/reports.html News: BlueCollarPC.Net passes 4,000,000 Website Hits ! (Four Million) .... Blue Collar PC Dot Net Passes One Million Hits Mark! (Includes our sub-domain PDAMobileCafe) http://bluecollarpc.net/webalizer/index.html  http://pdamobilecafe.bluecollarpc.net/modlogan/index.html  NEW: For our WEBSITE GROUP (bcpcgroup) - the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) technology had been added for all email from any of the primary domain BlueCollarPC.Net and sub domains website email addresses.  SEE: SPF - http://spf.pobox.com/  BlueCollarPC.Net WebLog Launched Fall, 2007:  http://bluecollarpc.wordpress.com/ (New/Secured Jan 2008)  (Paste this feed into favorite RSS/XML Readers): or click:    http://bluecollarpc.wordpress.com/feed/  Cybercrime Treaty Gains Momentum... Article: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/040108-cybercrime-treaty-gains-more-interest.html?fsrc=rss-security Council Of Europe: http://www.conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/ChercheSig.asp?NT=185&CM=8&DF=&CL=ENG  PLAY))) Malware Botnet Cartel (BCPCNet-Modcasts) http://www.bluecollarpc.net/downloads/DestroyBotnetCartel.wma  COMMENTS: (bluecollarpc) As concise as possible, this is a very, very great news story. Personally as an Advanced User average consumer on PC - I launched this personal community website for malware removal and computing safety ongoing to best save a lot of aggravation and time for the newer community members of the world web, as we all have gone through with the advent of spyware from early adware days (lost innocense). Actually with 4 million (hits) visitors in just 2 years and various groups and forums I have been to - it is almost too easy to conclude that malware and the removal and protection against it is practically too much of a learning curve for a major percentage of home and even office computer users, and I mean that includes the most simple basic protection of antivirus softwares. In 2007, the best of the best (including Serf) estimated 7 to 11 percent of world computers were hijacked into malware botnets (zombie networks / slang). In year 2008 now, the estimate has dramatically increased to 1 out of 4 (yes 25 percent) are hijacked by malware botnet crimewares including the infections (virus/worm) and infestations (spyware/trojans/rootkits). Looking at that - yes real numbers have almost doubled in one year ! (Finally peaked ?). This is an impossible subject to cover in one paragraph, but... to roughly sum up - I concluded over a  year ago with personal experience and others that it will take a concerted World Government empowered legally to smash what I call the "Malware Botnet Cartel". I think even the newbie immediately perceives the internet does not exist without internet commerce, and that is what is in danger beyond all the horrifying tragedies of individual incidents of IDTheft directly attributed to cyber crime and crimewares employed (not even mentioning businesses hacked) - and these are in part and wholly being swallowed up by the 'botmasters' (or bot herders) who are engaging "Bot Lord" Wars like an American Mafia movie in today's terms of Gang Wars - the end of cyber crime itself. This news story is perhaps the heart of this and perhaps the real and actual light at the end of the tunnel. There comes the point when the various Governments are going to have to be trusted to "purge the system" of all malwares and rouge computers of criminals with wholesale arrests of the cyber criminals. Laws will need to be temporarily suspended to accomplish this or, otherwise, it will take more and more years of legislation with all the arguements to get it passed at the expense of all the not-so- advanced users. Case in point, USA Better Business Bureau places crimeware IDTheft in the USA alone at 45 Billion dollars for just year 2007 ! This "Cyber Crime Treaty" may actually be that 'silver bullet' the security industry and users have longed for blindly even. PLAY))) Malware Botnet Cartel (BCPCNet-Modcasts) http://www.bluecollarpc.net/downloads/DestroyBotnetCartel.wma   off the Presses January 30 2008....... I no sooner started using this on my new Vista Empowered Computer and recommended it as top Suite as an Advanced User - first time ever strongly recommended a "suite" (antivirus, antispyware, and firewall). Seems we were just ahead of the rest in recommending Trend Micro as consistently in the top three antispyware programs..... Trend Micro(TM) Internet Security(TM) 2008 Achieves Top Scores in Anti-Malware Testing... (Bulletins: Trend Micro takes World's Best honors beating Kaspersky, Symantec, F-Secure, Sophos, more.... We Told You So ! SEE: http://bluecollarpc.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/trend-microtm-internet-securitytm-2008-achieves-top-scores-in-anti-malware-testing/  http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080130/aqw129.html?.v=31 --------* Jan/Feb 2006: The RASAutodial regsitry items by adware and spyware are discovered by yours truly. You will not find removal of these items in any anti-spyware software in the industry, I am the first to discover them. Much more at our Spyware Removal Center page here at the website. Items appear at: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\RASAutodial\Addresses\ (spyware name) Click Spyware Removal Center page here at the website for full details and Computer Help Center page for Registry orientation links. -------* LEGAL REASONS TO HAVE PROTECTION IN PLACE The Legal Risks of Computer Pests and Hacker Tools Jiffy Lube International, 4 CCH Computer Cases para. 46845 (US Dist. Ct. Md. 1993), a corporate telecommunications customer, Jiffy Lube International, ... http://research.pestpatrol.com/KnowledgeBase/Whitepapers/LiabilityofPests.asp The Legal Risks of Computer Pests and Hacker Tools http://www.pestpatrol.com/Whitepapers/LiabilityofPests.asp  FBI: Over 1 Million Potential Victims of Botnet Cyber Crime ..... Press Release For Immediate Release June 13, 2007 http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel07/botnet061307.htm Washington D.C. FBI National Press Office Identity Theft Remains Threat For Those Online http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20080413/BUSINESS0503/804110354 ..8.1 million Americans last year... The average amount lost per individual as a result of ID theft last year was about $5,500, for a total of $45 billion. Despite the decline in reported ID theft, the Better Business Bureau warns that thieves and hackers still lurk online and is offering advice consumers can use to protect their personal and financial information. Study: $3.2 Billion Lost to Phishing in 2007 http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/12/study_32_billion_lost_to_phish_1.html U.S. consumers were scammed out of roughly $3.2 billion over the past year from phishing scams, a significant increase over last year, according to a survey released this week....

 

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