Don't Look for Porn on YouTube

The main reason you shouldn't look for porn on YouTube, is that there isn't any. YouTube is applying some very strict censorship on material uploaded to its site, and even if a boob or two manage to sneak through the censoring net, you can be sure it will be quickly removed. If you are looking for free porn, you might wanna try some Porn 2.0 Sites.

That aside, PandaLabs blog reports that many porn-related comments on YouTube lead to a fake porn site, named "PornTube 2.0". This site's sole purpose is to install malware on your computer. If you click anything on the site, it will prompt you to download a fake Adobe Flash plugin, which is an installer for a malware called "Adware/Privacy Center". This malware is basically another fake Anti-Virus/Anti Spyware program, which you don't really want on your PC.

So - don't copy-paste any porn links from YouTube. They won't get you any porn - just a messed up computer.

Good News: Shareaza is Fighting Back

TorrentFreak gives exclusive updates as to Shareaza's fight with its hijackers.

The Shareaza team informs their supporters that they are "announcing that we have legal representation and will be contesting the trademark application on our name and identity taken out by Discordia Ltd. After that, we’ll be looking to get our old domain back from the people who threatened, bullied and intimidated the team member holding it on the project’s behalf and who are now using as the gateway to their deceptive business model".

Good luck, guys!

Officepoltergeist: And Here I thought Back Orifice was Dead

The 90s were a lot of fun. All you needed to entertain yourself was a bit of viciousness, a stupid co-worker and a piece of genius-software that was called Back Orifice.

Back Orifice (and its many take-offs) was designed for remote system administration. It enables a user to control a computer running Windows from a remote location. In plain words - you install it on a person's computer and you can drive them NUTS by making their PC pop up weird error messages, open their CD tray, spy on them and even shut down their computer.

Very quickly, the anti-virus industry categorized Back Orifice as malware and added it to their quarantine lists. In other words, it will be very hard to install Back Orifice on a regular computer these days.

It appears that all hop is not lost for the script kiddies. They can try Officepoltergeist. This open-source software "allows you to take limited control of another person's computer", but the makers claim it's not Spyware, and that it "does not allow remote users to read data or execute potentially harmful commands".

OfficePoltergeist sets up a small server running on the victim's machine. The program, which hides in memory while it runs, waits silently for a connection on port 666. Any proper firewall should be able to prevent its use, but hey - not everybody uses a firewall!

Downloads:

OfficePoltergeist Controller - controls the poltergeist

OfficePoltergeist Server - runs on the victim's machine

mem86control.exe - same as above, only named something clever to evade detection

Have fun, you evil bastards :)