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The Better Business Bureau really took a hit to its stature, when this email scam went down on february 14th, this year. Thoasands of businesses across the United States were infected by a computer virus that appeared to be a regular Better Bussiness Bureau email. The virus opens when the computers accesses the link within the message. This cyber process triggers an address book, hibernating within a hacked computer in an advertising firm. That adress book releases the infected link and virus through the net and crashes any computer veiwing the email link. This could cost alot of money, or even worse, comletely ruin your computer. The Better Business Bureau has sent out an informative email requesting that recipients of the virus, to have knowledge concerning the fault and imposter by an unaffiliated source also warned future recipients to discard the message.
Very interesting article. It's scary how easy one can infect your computer, and for no apparent reason. I beleieve that this could have been a hit on both many companies across the US, but obviously more geared towrads the BBB(Better Business Bureau). Dealing with solving consumer complaints, a bitter feeling is usually involved when BBB and a company that encounters a problem. Maybe this virus was an angry management getting revenge for being exposed by the BBB, by messing up the intentions of the BBB. Further more, this is just another reason to get virus detetection, even if it costs you. Always better than having to buy a new PC.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Watch out or your email could get you!!
Jeff
The Better Business Bureau really took a hit to its stature, when this email scam went down on february 14th, this year. Thoasands of businesses across the United States were infected by a computer virus that appeared to be a regular Better Bussiness Bureau email. The virus opens when the computers accesses the link within the message. This cyber process triggers an address book, hibernating within a hacked computer in an advertising firm. That adress book releases the infected link and virus through the net and crashes any computer veiwing the email link. This could cost alot of money, or even worse, comletely ruin your computer. The Better Business Bureau has sent out an informative email requesting that recipients of the virus, to have knowledge concerning the fault and imposter by an unaffiliated source also warned future recipients to discard the message.
Very interesting article. It's scary how easy one can infect your computer, and for no apparent reason. I beleieve that this could have been a hit on both many companies across the US, but obviously more geared towrads the BBB(Better Business Bureau). Dealing with solving consumer complaints, a bitter feeling is usually involved when BBB and a company that encounters a problem. Maybe this virus was an angry management getting revenge for being exposed by the BBB, by messing up the intentions of the BBB. Further more, this is just another reason to get virus detetection, even if it costs you. Always better than having to buy a new PC.
The Better Business Bureau really took a hit to its stature, when this email scam went down on february 14th, this year. Thoasands of businesses across the United States were infected by a computer virus that appeared to be a regular Better Bussiness Bureau email. The virus opens when the computers accesses the link within the message. This cyber process triggers an address book, hibernating within a hacked computer in an advertising firm. That adress book releases the infected link and virus through the net and crashes any computer veiwing the email link. This could cost alot of money, or even worse, comletely ruin your computer. The Better Business Bureau has sent out an informative email requesting that recipients of the virus, to have knowledge concerning the fault and imposter by an unaffiliated source also warned future recipients to discard the message.
Very interesting article. It's scary how easy one can infect your computer, and for no apparent reason. I beleieve that this could have been a hit on both many companies across the US, but obviously more geared towrads the BBB(Better Business Bureau). Dealing with solving consumer complaints, a bitter feeling is usually involved when BBB and a company that encounters a problem. Maybe this virus was an angry management getting revenge for being exposed by the BBB, by messing up the intentions of the BBB. Further more, this is just another reason to get virus detetection, even if it costs you. Always better than having to buy a new PC.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Cell phones and Cancer
"http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2000/600_phone.html"
Cell phones and do they cause cancer.
This is a question that many have pondered. Followed by all of the questions, came many scientific studies and law suits. It was almost a fashion to sue cell phone manufacturers for hundreds of millions of dollars, with cancers and brain tumors, as the accusations. Just as with McCdonalds and Firestone, after one persons takes the money and runs, something must be done by the company. To reassure cell customers, an article on studies mentioned within, are done to prove that this popular media does not indeed cause brain tumors and cancer. It is proven that they emit a very low, and safe, amount of radion. Such a low amount that it is regulated by the FDA, just as the television, home phone, headphones, and radio.
I believe that articles and studies like this are very important to keep information up to date, and save companies with consumers, the proce of having to shell out extra and uninntended cash. People will take it to the next level with the legal process and how they rape it. What do you think??
Cell phones and do they cause cancer.
This is a question that many have pondered. Followed by all of the questions, came many scientific studies and law suits. It was almost a fashion to sue cell phone manufacturers for hundreds of millions of dollars, with cancers and brain tumors, as the accusations. Just as with McCdonalds and Firestone, after one persons takes the money and runs, something must be done by the company. To reassure cell customers, an article on studies mentioned within, are done to prove that this popular media does not indeed cause brain tumors and cancer. It is proven that they emit a very low, and safe, amount of radion. Such a low amount that it is regulated by the FDA, just as the television, home phone, headphones, and radio.
I believe that articles and studies like this are very important to keep information up to date, and save companies with consumers, the proce of having to shell out extra and uninntended cash. People will take it to the next level with the legal process and how they rape it. What do you think??
Monday, February 12, 2007
Still on TV................
Sorry guys, by tommorow morning I will start creating links to my articles, but for this last time here is the address. Keep trying to add the link, but i cant get a hang of it. I will ask Blade tomm morning!!!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/12/apontv.wheeloffortune.ap/index.html
Wheel of Fortune has taken the mass media for a long 24 season run for its money. The show has opened up doors for the media and set an example of how media and culture can clash and dominate. What else can one say about a show with a 2 Ton wheel of cash prizes! A simple game show that we all used to play in 3rd grade science, evoloved into this sensational show that so many people view, every night. Not only the show, but the hosts, have become superstars and role models to some. Even though it is not as big as in the earlier years, it still has an estimated 46 million viewers across america each week. Amazing! Debuting in 1972, Wheel of Fortune, was the first to bank out on the idea of adults, playing a childish game, with huge prices and a super-hollywood shnazz factor.
What a great idea. The creators of this show must be fantastically exhausted with Wheel of Fortunes success. They have made it a part of pop culter, especially to the late 80's and early 90's. Who's grandma doesn't tune in every nite. Mine does! I love the idea of this show. It's so simple, yet the revenue is phenominal. This shows basic idea gets my brain running wild. Imagine how successful a broadcasted beer pong tornament with cheerleaders and cash prizes would become. What about Celebrity paintball or adult man-hunt. The ideas are endless. Until the next big craze............
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/12/apontv.wheeloffortune.ap/index.html
Wheel of Fortune has taken the mass media for a long 24 season run for its money. The show has opened up doors for the media and set an example of how media and culture can clash and dominate. What else can one say about a show with a 2 Ton wheel of cash prizes! A simple game show that we all used to play in 3rd grade science, evoloved into this sensational show that so many people view, every night. Not only the show, but the hosts, have become superstars and role models to some. Even though it is not as big as in the earlier years, it still has an estimated 46 million viewers across america each week. Amazing! Debuting in 1972, Wheel of Fortune, was the first to bank out on the idea of adults, playing a childish game, with huge prices and a super-hollywood shnazz factor.
What a great idea. The creators of this show must be fantastically exhausted with Wheel of Fortunes success. They have made it a part of pop culter, especially to the late 80's and early 90's. Who's grandma doesn't tune in every nite. Mine does! I love the idea of this show. It's so simple, yet the revenue is phenominal. This shows basic idea gets my brain running wild. Imagine how successful a broadcasted beer pong tornament with cheerleaders and cash prizes would become. What about Celebrity paintball or adult man-hunt. The ideas are endless. Until the next big craze............
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
KIDS, THE INTERNET, AND PORNOGRAPHY
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/02/05/kids.online.porn.ap/index.html
This article studies and spoke of how unwanted internet porn is reaching too many of our children’s viewing pleasures.
Some outrageous percentages are shown through out this article concerning teens accidentally coming across pornography while simply just using a search engine or surfing through websites with unwanted links. 42 percent of children between the ages of 10 and 17 admit they have viewed internet pornography within a 12 month span. Of that 42 %, 66% said they had viewed the pornography by accident. When asked about the situation most kids and teens just brush it off, saying that they see these images all the time. This article defines pornography as either naked people or people having sex. It seems that most of the youth here in America is so exposed that they have become desensitized to the mental effects of porn. The question then arises, is it a problem? The only problem defined in the article is that internet porn may skew what younger kids believe healthy sex is. A psychiatrist Sharon Hirsch, states that it may speed up teens involvement in sexual exploration or even lead to problems with sexual predators, but to me, that depends on the kid and how they are taught to act. Viewing some pornography and meeting up with a random stranger you meet online, are two totally different things. In my mind, its bad parenting if your children have no problem meeting some one they met on a porn page, because no one in their right mind would ever meet a strange person in that sense, unless they weren’t taught decency and common sense. What do you all think?
This article studies and spoke of how unwanted internet porn is reaching too many of our children’s viewing pleasures.
Some outrageous percentages are shown through out this article concerning teens accidentally coming across pornography while simply just using a search engine or surfing through websites with unwanted links. 42 percent of children between the ages of 10 and 17 admit they have viewed internet pornography within a 12 month span. Of that 42 %, 66% said they had viewed the pornography by accident. When asked about the situation most kids and teens just brush it off, saying that they see these images all the time. This article defines pornography as either naked people or people having sex. It seems that most of the youth here in America is so exposed that they have become desensitized to the mental effects of porn. The question then arises, is it a problem? The only problem defined in the article is that internet porn may skew what younger kids believe healthy sex is. A psychiatrist Sharon Hirsch, states that it may speed up teens involvement in sexual exploration or even lead to problems with sexual predators, but to me, that depends on the kid and how they are taught to act. Viewing some pornography and meeting up with a random stranger you meet online, are two totally different things. In my mind, its bad parenting if your children have no problem meeting some one they met on a porn page, because no one in their right mind would ever meet a strange person in that sense, unless they weren’t taught decency and common sense. What do you all think?
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