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How do you feel about Facebook secret psychology experiment on users’ emotions?

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In many ways, Facebook owns you. When you clicked that little TOS box, (terms of service), you agreed to let Facebook use your content and photos. Now they have done something that I feel is ethically wrong. You and your friends, and followers may of been part of an experiment conducted by manipulating your feeds. Facebook manipulated over 683,000 of it’s users feeds to see how people reacted to either positive or negative posts from their friends. Conducting secret psychology experiment on users’ emotions. You can add this worry to your lack of control and privacy online with Facebook. Facebook has conducted a secret massive psychology experiment on its users to find out how they respond to positive and negative messages – without telling participants. The article above is from the Telegraph, UK and it is quite detailed. If you would like to read it, it has what is known as a “paywall” in front of it. The work around for that is open your browser in privacy mode or with Chrome, it is called incognito, so that is a good tip for you today. How to read protected articles online. Facebook manipulated peoples feeds. Then they then monitored the users’ response, to see whether […]

Search Engine Submission Services are a Scam

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This article is from Bill Hartzer . He said everything I was going to say. Thank you Bill! Great article, visit his site for other good articles. I officially officially declare that all search engine submission services are now scams. If you receive an email from anyone claiming to offer search engine submission services or a similar submission service–it is spam and also a scam. In a recent Google Webmaster Forum thread, a Google representative officially stated: these services are not needed and can even be counter-productive Yes, search engine submission is officially dead–and officially a scam. Take a look at the UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email–spam) email that I received just recently, it looked like this: The email is offering “search engine submission services” and the service, which costs a hefty $75.00 per year provides “submission and search engine ranking for domain owners”. The offer goes on to say: Failure to complete your search engine registration by Nov 10, 2012 may result in the cancellation of this order (making it difficult for your customers to locate you using search engines on the web). Sure, they want you to reply and pay for their “service” by a certain date. But it is absolutely a […]

Fruit Spam using Instagram-Beware of links

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Fruit spam? Fruit spam. If you’ve been noticing a strange rise of fruit-related pictures in your Instagram feed today, don’t worry. Your friends haven’t become (even more) obsessed with taking pictures of their healthy meals. Well, you might want to worry a wee bit, because the pictures might be linked to a fruit-themed spam attack that’s slowly making its way around the popular photo-sharing service. It’s unclear just how said spammers are getting a hold of users’ login credentials, but the attack results in a number of pictures of fruit – of all things – being posted to a person’s Instagram account. The text accompanying the pictures also includes a Bitly hyperlink – clicked on more than 35,000 times as of this article’s writing – that takes users to a fake BBC page promoting weight-loss coffee. “Ever seen this stuff? I guess its super healthy, im giving it a try. I saw it on Dr Oz’s show! Link is in my bio #lovemyfollowers #health,” reads an example of one spammy photo’s description. To its credit, Bitly is now throwing up a giant warning message for users attempting to click through to the aforementioned link. It’s possible the fake BBC site could just […]

How to block an IP or Country in WordPress or your web hosting. Avoid spam and hackers.

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How to block an IP or country. Block IP in your website hosting, see plugin for WordPress that blocks country.
Stop spam and bad comments, watch video now.

Fake Linkedin email-connect-reminders-Invitation Notification

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Fake Linkedin Email-Beware Every day I get new spam, and some of it can be dangerous.Today I got my first fake Linkedin email. When I clicked the button to check it out, I was taken to a poker website. That was actually lucky, because I could of opened a malware file or computer exploit. What spammers, hackers and other nefarious evil people do to get access to you and your computer is what is called “spoofing”. They take a legitimate email, like Linkedin, Paypal or banks, and copy all the graphics and then insert their own links into the email. It is quite simple to do and so easy to fall for. These fake Linkedin emails, fake Paypal emails and fake FedEx, UPS and more are becoming a daily occurrence. My advice? For the fake Linkedin emails, if you do not recognize the person who is asking to connect with you, just go to your Linkedin account and login onto the website. You will see if that invite is in there and you will know you have gotten a bad email. Trash it and carry on. Be wary, be careful and do not trust outside emails that make no sense to you or tell you have […]

Email Scams, Fake Email, How to check it video

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Fake Email, Email Scams, Email Viruses. Every day I get some very bad and dangerous email in my inbox. I run so many websites and have about 10 business email addresses, so between all of those I get quite the variety of fraudulent email. I have been teaching about this since 1999. I am going to start documenting on this post the email I get when I see a new scam, and help others avoid getting a virus, or getting scammed. There is so much of it, I am just going to start with today’s inbox. Did you know there is a way you can look at your questionable email safely? I made a video on how to do that. Best viewed in full screen mode. Update 6/13 Fake “you have been tagged notifications” from Facebook. Beware of fake Facebook Tag notifications Be wary of fake emails claiming to be from Facebook saying that you have been tagged in a photograph [18 July 2012] If you click on the link within the email, you are not taken immediately to the real Facebook website but instead taken to a site designed to infect your computer with malware. Within four seconds of […]

How to get rid of and remove the Lizamoon virus fake “Windows Stability Center” virus

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Fake Windows Stability Center Trojan. How to get rid of it. Virus security software calls itself “Windows Stability Center” LizaMoon SQL injection: To continue the story from a few days ago. My daughter was doing a search for her term paper, and when she did the google image search, this virus came up. This fake security software calls itself “Windows Stability Center” and is known as the LizaMoon SQL injection: Windows Stability Center Trojan. We killed the process and got out of the window, and thought all was well, since she never clicked anything or downloaded anything. Well she continued her research the next day and did a google image search again, and the message keeps popping up in Firefox, but not Internet Explorer. So I am not sure why that is happening other then she is finding many infected websites in image search. So now we are not sure what is up and when I did some research on how to tell for sure if you are infected and how remove it, I was finding this topic all over the map. There were many different sets of directions and opinions in the geek community. I suppose they all may […]

Frozen Computer Screen from virus-how to get out of the fake virus screen, or LizaMoon Virus

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How to get out of a virus frozen screen on your computer. Click image to see a large version of the screen. So you have a frozen computer screen or a screen you cannot get past? Here is my story. I started to write this post yesterday, and saved it as a draft. In the meantime my daughter was working on her finals for school, and I told her about this Liza Moon virus and warned her if anything odd came up and told her she was infected, let me see it. The next day she was doing a google image search for her paper and clicked an image and got the warning. She brought the computer to me and I was honestly surprised. There it was, the lizamoon virus. Luckily, she never clicked anything, so she did not get infected. But this is a very tricky one. It looks legit, and I feel bad for all the innocent people who will get this. Especially the senior citizens. When I work on computers for Seniors it breaks my heart how messed up their computers usually are. Spyware, extra spammy toolbars, and just all kind of annoyances that make it so […]