Silent noise - about spam, trojans and other nasty stuff

Some stuff came my way today, but I didn't get around writing much.
Perhaps I shouldn't write this either.
Saved a lot of stuff, should be enough for later use.
If I ever get around doing anything at all.
And if you get bored by reading stuff with little substance, you might as well leave now.

John Pirro

John Pirro has popped up at several of my domains during the last months.
As he did today.

See spamhaus.org, the ROKSO list for more info about him.
The "Damn it feels good being a SPAMMER!" guy

Quoting from http://www.ketv.com/news/18760921/detail.html:

OMAHA, Neb. -- State finance officials are warning people about two online loan scams in which a payment is needed up-front before a loan is given.

The scams are coming from Bennett Financial Group and Westmont Financial Group, which list their addresses at 10665 Bedford St., and 8401 Dodge St., respectively.

Investigators said the companies don't have offices at those addresses.

And a bit later in the article:

100 quatloos if you already know this guy.
100 more quatloos if you can tell a bit more about him.

I know a little bit, like a couple of possible ICQ-numbers and some domains.

Could have been an interesting site:

OnGuardOnline.gov provides practical tips from the federal government and the technology industry to help you be on guard against Internet fraud, secure your computer, and protect your personal information.

But I usually keep my guard up when I am online, which does not fit with OnGuardOnline.gov:

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I once had a chat with a nice guy. Who he really was may be an open question.
It went like this:

|me|: Hi. How much for your servers?
bpkoreachina: I am currently idle.
bpkoreachina: Korean boxes - 1800 usd China boxes starting at 650 usd
|me|: Mailing allowed from the servers?
bpkoreachina: no its only for hosting purposes , i can provide mailing boxes but the price is diferent
|me|: hmm
|me|: 1800/650 is not cheap, Levon is cheaper?
bpkoreachina: well that is my prices
|me|: ok
|me|: speed?
|me|: some of those in china are painfully slow

This blog has moved (again).

I have also switched from WordPress to Drupal as "publishing system".

There will be some chaos, internal links between posts have to be edited as the posts are being renumbered during the import. And there is a difference between Drupal and WP regarding naming the internal links.

The search function is not working too good either and that one will be more difficult for me to solve.