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

Facebook, Fan Check Virus

To all users of Facebook, please check out this article:

FaceBook Fan Check Virus Already Infected A Lot Of Users

and here is a quote:

"Yeah, you should know that FaceBook is full of viruses, malware and phishing scams among others, but you can protect yourselves. FaceBook Fan Check is apparently an app which checks your number of friends, then gives users the possibility to create a RSS feed to post it on your FaceBook page.

All is good until here as this is nothing more than a virus. When users try to access the FaceBook Fan Check app they’ll get a message that says the app is down because the developer is adding new features, and new capacity, and that it could take days to finish them. IT says that you should become a fan on FaceBook of the update, but in fact it will infect your FaceBook account, and it will send an email to all of your friends to become a fan, but it will infect them too."

Please be aware. No antivirus has been able to detect it yet, and at the same time, if you can, disconnect your line from the network OR disconnect your wireless in the meantime. A solution for this may be coming soon, or at least a workaround. Please stay posted.

And don't download anything that says it can exclusively remove it.

Regards,

eggBrain

Seeking help?

eggBrain has released a website for those in need of help with addictions. Please visit:

Addiction Connections Resource

to see how you can help the cause:

The co-founders joined together because of a common experience, the devastation of addiction, and determination to make a difference in their community. The decision was made to form ACR, Inc. in the belief that ACR could give hope to families and addicts and help prevent others from ever experiencing addiction.

Thank you.

-eggBrain

MidnightJewels.com - re-designed

MidnightJewels.com has hired eggBrain to do a re-design of their logo and revamping of their site. The first stage has been released at http://www.midnightjewels.com! More changes are to come, so if you enjoy high quality jewelry and a value price, go to midnightjewels.com and see what they have to offer!

Cows Gone Wild!

Staffordangus.com is now up and running. Stafford angus beef is premium, hormone-free, grain-fed beef in Cecil Co. Maryland. You'll find it has the best marbling simply by the way they treat their Black Angus Steers, free-roaming, fresh air and fresh food.

Visit the site now at http://www.staffordangus.com!

Another friendly site, provided by eggBrain.

Security issue - Click Through Fraud

On June 30, 2009, The Washington Post posted an article regarding a new malicious piece of software that makes an effort to install a Trojan Horse on your machine when you're visiting certain websites. Basically, it takes advantage of Google's program of AdSense. Certain sites were hacked and seeded with code:

"Earlier this month, security experts at Websense warned that some 40,000 Web sites were hacked and seeded with code that bombards a visitor's PC with a virtual kitchen sink worth of browser exploits, all in an effort to install a Trojan horse program. Websense named this mass compromise "Nine-Ball," and the Trojan dropped on victimized PCs was thought to install a range of malicious software."

Slashdot has followed up to this article on their blog.

eggBrain is NOT one of those sites and is making an effort to review all the sites it has developed to ensure YOUR safety online.

In the meantime, please make sure you have the latest of what anti-malware software you are using to protect your PC. If at any point your subscription has expired, contact eggBrain for help!

-eggBrain