Today, we have identified an organized operation of forum scam using geocities, which hosts hundreds of thousands of homepages for free. Continue reading
Warning: Organized Forum Scam with Geocities
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OnyX Updated to 1.7.7
System maintenance application, OnyX, is upgraded to 1.7.7. OnyX uses many open-source Unix programs and make them available in GUI under Mac OS X.
Video Sharing Web Sites
As Google and other major Internet players showed their interest in purchasing popular video sharing site YouTube earlier this year, many groups entered this video sharing business. In fact, we, MacHouse, get a few invitations as we host a few dozen videos at YouTube. Continue reading
Web Statistics for December 2006
Our websites are visited by several hundred people every day with many thanks. Let’s see web statistics for the first 24 days of December, 2006.
As we are serving mostly Mac users, just like last time (July 2006), there is no surprise that a majority of visitors here use Mac OS. That explains that a majority of our visitors use Safari. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer takes the second place with 34.9%. (It was 14.1% in July) Internet Explorer is still very popular among both Mac and PC users. Actually, back in July, Internet Explorer was the third place. And Windows users only accounted for 20% of all visitors here. Apparently, our websites are visited by more PC users than before. Furthermore, Firefox fell to the third place with 20.3%. (It was 22.8% before.) Continue reading
Torrent, Porn and Spyware
Some Torrent websites are run illegally. Inevitably, they move from one hosting company to another. And online gambling is illegal in some countries. So how are Torrent and porn sites related to each other? We know that many Torrent websites advertise porn sites, gambling sites or both. They seem to get along with each other. These days, spyware has joined the club. Like this one, “cmb_243461.exe.” According to Kaspersky and Symantec, this PC program is spyware. More precisely, it’s a dialer. If installed on a PC, it connects a porn site without machine owner’s permission. Continue reading