It's been three months since you looked at me

Ok, so it's not quite the Bare Naked Ladies, but I never liked them anyway. In any case, what has been going on with eggBrain over the past three months you may ask?

Our strategic plan is CONSTANTLY morphing and every week, a little more progress has been made.

We now offer FLASH banners for any company that might need them.

Check out our website and follow our links to other small businesses we have encountered.

We've been bitten by the green bug, so our operations are striving to reduce the wasteful use of any kind of energy: gas, electricity, time. Yes, we said time. Time, like energy, once used, is converted into other things.

Who turned us on to green? Green Fox Energy Group.

Everyday we strive for efficiency so we focus our time in creating deliverables, improving our processes as well as increasing the type and number of services to our customers. Did you know that we now offer flash banners as well as secure data removal? Additionally, we provide customized PC education.

We are continuing to investigate social media and its effectiveness on the impact of improving a small business. Yes, there are TONS of articles regarding that it's a wonderful thing. If anything, eggBrain would agree to a certain degree. But can we have a better interface in creating these "social" media pages? Facebook alone is cumbersome. eggBrain has a professional opinion regarding social media shared in another post soon.

Windows 7 has happened! eggBrain has heard both gripes and likes about it. In the long run, eggBrain buys nothing from Microsoft unless it's been proven and prevalent. Throwing it on a machine based on a release...isn't exactly our idea of proven technology. But then again, Microsoft HAS been able to patch things up along the way. eggBrain just wonders if Microsoft is in touch with their customer base. Their commercials make it sound like they are.

This post has been random. No real excuse. Just like there is no real excuse that you should not have some kind of backup happening for YOUR PC or virus protection.

Be well.

-eggBrain

Facebook, Koobface, the other side

Kaspersky Lab Detects New Worms Attacking MySpace and Facebook

"Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management systems, has detected two variants of a new worm, Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.a. and Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b, which attack MySpace and Facebook respectively. As part of their malicious payload, the worms transform victim machines into zombie computers to form botnets.

Even though the worms are currently only infecting MySpace and Facebook users, Kaspersky Lab analysts are warning users that the worms are designed to upload additional malicious modules with other functionality via the Internet. It is highly probable that victim machines will not only be used for spreading links via these social networking sites, but the botnets will also be used for other malicious purposes."

This is the same as an infamous attack of last year. If anything, some blogs say they are rumors, others say they are fact.

This blog from mashable.com claims is it is a two part way of having you go to a site which loads malware by luring you with this scare. Some might call it social scareware at this point, as far as eggBrain is concerned.

Associatedcontent.com's post states: "Facebook users who added the Fan Check application may find themselves especially vulnerable. The Fan Check application tells you which of your friends are your biggest fans. It compiles data by accessing your wall and your news feed (already a bit creepy from a privacy standpoint, but Facebook users are aware of this when they add the application)."

Again, if you are a facebook user and you have this app, please try to remove it promptly. In addition, there are signatures written for the Koobface virus by various antivirus companies, such as Kapersky and Norton/Symantec. (This link contains information about the virus and it's latest certification as late as Sept 4, 2009.

All in all, in eggBrain's honest AND professional opinion, UPDATE your antivirus, DISCONNECT your machine from the internet, and SCAN your computer with a Full detailed scan. The software that we recommend, AVG Antivirus, does have a signature written for it so you SHOULD be protected.

Reconnect after you are SURE any and all malware has been removed.

If you STILL have the virus and any other malware that may have come along because of it, you may need to have an expert, such as eggBrain, to take a look at your machine.

Feel free to post your progress here or e-mail eggBrain.

Regards,
eggBrain