There is a new scam going on right now on the wec. If you get an email saying “Facebook Password Reset” with an attachement included, don’t even think of touching it! It’s a scam which spreads malware into the systems.

I was a victim of this scam yesterday, and I had even posted a twitter tweet. Let me tell you, I even downloaded the zipped attachment and opened it. I was expecting a .doc file or a .txt file. But, to my astonishment, there was a .exe file! I closed and deleted the .zip file immediately! Phew! Saved.

Here is a screenshot of how the email looks like.

Check the higlighted areas in the mail. Click to enlarge

At first, I knew it was some kinda scam thing but didn’t post about it. But today, I saw a post on Cnet that reported about this scam. It said that the attachment contains some password stealer that can steal the users password and username. This is what McAfee has to say about the scam:

“This threat is potentially very dangerous considering that there are over 350 million Facebook users who could fall for this scam,” McAfee says. “This is also the sixth most prevalent piece of malware targeting consumers in the last 24 hours, as tracked by McAfee Labs.”

There are many reasons why this can be called as a phishing scam. First of all, it came into my spam box and not my inbox. So, that’s a reason for suspicion. Next, the “To” address was different. It was “pram6176″ which was not my email id at all! There was a .exe file in the attachment – why would that be needed??

Some things that Cnet noticed:  The punctuations are not correct – “Facebook” isn’t capitalised in the email. Facebook would never send an email with an attachment – It would have pointed to a link where one could reset password.

So, beware all 350 million users, THIS IS A SCAM.

As you all know Google celebrates many big events by changing its logo. Today, Google has changed its logo to a different one which has a diver in his diving suit. Save this logo onto your desktop if you liked it!

The new doodle for winter Olympics from Google

Google very recently launched real-time search which included Twitter tweets about the hot news that was going on. A research by Digital Beat on this new integration has revealed that there has been a increase of traffic for the social networking site, Twitter.

comScore: Graph analyses the traffic

The statistics from ComScore show that there has been a little increase in traffic than the normal traffic that the social networking site was getting usually. In January this year, Twitter got 21.79 million unique visitors which was pretty much higher than that of 21.25 million visitors (calculated on July 2009). There was a 3.1 percent increase in the traffic, in December when compared with the traffic in the previous month. So, the real time search which was introduced on December 7 has caused a great impact on Twitter’s traffic.

Experian Hitwise collects some data on this aspect. The graph above shows the increase in the traffic that is driven to Twitter through Google. There has been a 9% increase in the traffic that Twitter got from Google in the time period of December 5th to February 13th.

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Google Buzz has got varied responses from the public. While some people are busy comparing stats of Google Buzz with other leading other sites such as Facebook and Twitter, some other people are trying to list out ‘n’ number of factors which will result in failure of the product. After the release of Google Buzz, one thing that has been discussed a lot is about the lack of privacy it provides to the user. But finally, Google Buzz has taken a step forward in protecting the privacy of its users by implementing 3 good changes.

Auto-Follow Is Abandoned

This was one of the positive points for Google Buzz. People could easily get started with Google Buzz. When I started with Google Buzz, I was following about 35+ people.  But, for people who are getting Google Buzz feature now, will not have the auto-follow feature. Instead they will be asked to follow people whom they know. Like the following image. Now, that’s a good change!

Auto-Integration Of Picasa And Google Reader

Yes, even this is removed. When I joined the Buzz, two sites were already connected – Picasa and Google Reader. This surely invades the privacy of a person. Even this has been removed in order to protect the privacy of its users. This can also be seen in the above picture itself.

Also Read: How To Access Gmail In Google Wave

Buzz Settings Now Integrated In Gmail Settings

Didn’t like Google Buzz? You think it’s a disturbance in your account. You think it invades your privacy. No need to follow that long tutorial to hide Google Buzz. Google Buzz team has added this option in the Gmail settings to hide the label “Buzz” from your account!

Now, with these changes Google has certainly protected the privacy of its users to a certain extent. But what about this flaw? We have to wait and see what Google does about this!

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Windows 7 is yet to get popular, but there is already curiosity increasing among people about how Windows 8 would look! However, there has been no news from Microsoft about Windows 8 looks/ requirements.

Today, I found a very nice video on Youtube that will explain you how Windows 8 would look. I would like to remind you that this is just a concept and is in no way related to the real Windows 8 that would be released.

Source: roxgod666

Youtube has gone down today. This is a bad news for all youtube fans. However, a site has to be down for maintenance. Here are some alternatives, that you could go for while Youtube is down.

1. Dailymotion
2. blip.tv
3. Clipshack
4. Flurl
5. Vimeo
6. Uber me

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Dusherra is one of the grand festivals celebrated in India. i know that most of you people are sending SMS, pics and good wishes to your friends. Here is a simple collection of all the SMS, pics and scraps that you can send to your beloved ones.

As the candlelight flame
Ur life may always be happy,
As the mountain high
U move without shy,
As sunshine creates morning glory
fragrance fills years as Flory,
All darkness is far away
As light is on its way.

Wishing U all a very Happy Vijaya Dashami.

Fortunate is the one
Who has learned to admire,
But not to envy.
Good wishes for a joyous Navratri,
With a plenty of peace and prosperity.

May this Dasara,
light up for you.
The hopes of Happy times,
And dreams for a year full of smiles!
Wish you Happy Dasara.

This Navratri, may you be blessed with good fortune
As long as Ganeshji’s trunk,
Wealth and prosperity as big as his stomach,
Happiness as sweet as his ladoos
And may your trouble be as small as his mouse.

Happy Navratri

Memories of moments celebrated together
Moments that have been attached in my heart forever
Make me Miss You even more this Navratri.
Hope this Navratri brings in Good Fortune
And Long lasting happiness for you!

Happy Navratri

May maa bless you
With happiness all the year through!
Wishing you a happy durga puja

And finally, I wish you all a happy Dusshera festival.

Here are some wallpapers and pics that you would like to send to your beloved ones.

http://www.123greetings.com/aff-bin/subcategory/207/eoct_dussehra_happy

http://www.dussehraegreetings.com/

In the mean time watch this video of the world famous mysore dasara

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Here is the video for the total solar eclipse that took place this day in the morning…. If you have missed it then watch this and enjoy…..It’s amazing….!!!

Google keeps its foot on every part of this world. Now no wonder that it has also kept its foot on the space. Did you think Google provides maps only of the Earth?? How come you under estimate Google in such a way? Here is a find. Google maps for Mars and Moon.

Maybe this service is there in 3D in Google Earth, but that does not give you the deep look on the planet’s surface. Google, just like maps for earth has also a service in which you can explore the two hot topics in space, Mars and Moon. This is also just like the maps you have seen for Google earth. While you surf through the map it gives you information about the human discoveries about the planet like,  in moon, where did the Apollo 11 landed?, Where did Neil Armstrong land? etc. in a very efficient way. Check this out for sure…

Google has been the most amazing word in the whole web. There is no person on the web who doesn’t know the word Google. How did Google start?? Who started it? How did it become famous?? Latest news from Google?? Get all the things on a single page

Before telling you what I have found out let me myself tell you the introduction to the history of Google. Google started out with a domain name Back-Rub which was started by Larry and Sergey, at present, The Stanford University, Science grad students. This was in 1995. Later, they got a new domain Google.com. This started the entry of Google in the internet. It has developed to create a new Google OS right now!! How Amazing!!!

So, the Google quest is amazing to know about. I have found a Google page where you get the complete time-line from back rub to the Google Android powered phone. It’s called the Google Tenth Birthday However, it is not yet updated for the latest news (Google OS). But Google has got a amazing history…That’s for sure!!!:)

Enjoy this video if you have time…. It’s from Google