Facebook friends could be Nigerian princes

The latest plan from the Nigerian scammers is to compromise a person's Facebook account, then send messages out to the friend list asking for cash.

These emails, dubbed the Nigerian 419 fraud, are commonly found in inboxes the world over, with bad spelling and grammar from a person claiming to be a Nigerian prince contacting their father's close business contact.

Well, apparently that's not working, so hacking into a person's Facebook account, pretending to be stranded somewhere without a phone and in urgent need of cash is the new way of doing things.

Me crz broked

Usually the poor use of grammar might set the alarm bells ringing... but most people have at least one friend that thinks saying "Me crs now broked, can we do da ting laterz?" (An actual message from a TechRadarite's Facebook inbox) is alright.

Facebook account details have become hot property on the black market for this very reason, as receiving a message from someone via the 'Book is as good as a phone call to some people.

Programs that harvest the details are downloaded from a bogus Facebook message, often asking you to go to a video site to see a movie of yourself, and when asked to 'upgrade' the video player, malware is downloaded instead.

Best get safe from now on then... otherwise all your friends could be angry that you don't even acknowledge their attempts to help get you home.

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The worst computer viruses

Over the years, computer viruses have been responsible for untold misery and billions of pounds in damage.

These digital nasties have been around since the 1970s, when ARPANET – the precursor to the modern internet – was hit by the creeper virus. But it wasn't until 25 years ago, on November 10 1983, that the name "computer virus" was coined.

Frederick Cohen, a computer security expert, was the man to come up with the term, defining it as "a program that can 'infect' other programs by modifying them to include a possibly evolved copy of itself.”

Viruses were simple then and generally confined to research labs. But the virus has come a long way since and we now require a massive security industry to protect our computers from infection.

Below, we’ve picked out 10 of the nastiest viruses ever, starting with the Elk Cloner in 1982 and moving through the decades to 2007’s Storm Worm.

Computer nasties: Virus
Computer nasties: Worm
Computer nasties: Trojan Horse

1982. Elk Cloner:
Elk Cloner has the rather dubious honour of being known as the first virus to operate "in the wild". Before 15-year-old Richard Skrenta’s virus infected Apple II computers viruses had only existed in closed networks, but the Elk Cloner showed the potential for damage that viruses had.

1982 to 2007 worst computer Viruses>>>

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Wana Internet Users Are unHappy

Internet users of Wana Company cannot log into Skyrock. The most mobile blog directory. As was posted in the official Forum of Wana official page, users have been asking to get back to their blogs and upate their articles and read their comments and messages about a month now. I'm a Wana user, I less check skyrock so I'm not bothered at all. But I feel sorry for the best Company serving the slowest connexion debit and with a huge server errors. I feel sorry too for the users that may get forced to go to net cafés or buy another company modem.

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Formatted Blog

J'ai formaté mon Blog. Je blog encore fois!

Bienvenue Chers(es) 'amis(es) encore fois dans mong blog

I have deleted my previous blog content. I start it over

Welcome my dear friends.

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