Tag: Troubleshooting

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Spammer Alert: superdooperdeals.com

Readers sent us a few info about new round of spam from superdooperdeals.com. Do not give them your email addresses with hope you’d be unsubscribed from their spam bombardments. superdooperdeals.com site includes some fake testimonials that don’t even make any sense.

Whois info on superdooperdeals.com:

Registration Service Provided By: Namecheap.com
Contact: support@namecheap.com
Visit: http://namecheap.com

Domain name: Superdooperdeals.com

Registrant Contact:
SuperDooperDeals
Liam Carroll ()

Fax:
15500 SW Jay Street #38743
Beaverton, OR 97006
US

Administrative Contact:
SuperDooperDeals
Liam Carroll (liam@superdooperdeals.com)
+1.5033038404
Fax: +1.5555555555
15500 SW Jay Street #38743
Beaverton, OR 97006
US

Technical Contact:
SuperDooperDeals
Liam Carroll (liam@superdooperdeals.com)
+1.5033038404
Fax: +1.5555555555
15500 SW Jay Street #38743
Beaverton, OR 97006
US

Status: Locked

Name Servers:
ns1.superdooperdeals.com
ns2.superdooperdeals.com

Creation date: 23 Mar 2011 03:15:00
Expiration date: 22 Mar 2012 22:15:00

Other Domain Registered by superdooperdeals.com:

  • bingolikey.com
  • carz-online.com
  • luxuryhosting.net
  • yourkeywords.net
  • we-mean-business.org
  • playwithusdaily.com

We will add more info whenever we get them.

eNom and namecheap are the DNS Registrar that superdooperdeal.com uses, but they are willing to resolve the issue.

This is a sample of namecheap.com reply to the complaints:

Hello,

Thank you for your email regarding researchsneeze.info domain name. The domain that you reported is registered with NameCheap but hosted with another company. Please contact the hosting company for help with investigating the incident of spam. You will need to forward entire email with full headers to them. Here are contact details of the company that owns IP address assigned to the domain:

http://who.is/whois-ip/108.60.156.10/
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Regards,
Marta K.
Customer Support

http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=108.60.156.10?showDetails=true&showARIN=false

Other good and responsible DNS Registrars would take the complaints seriously and actually do something to disable the offending domains.

File complaints to FTC: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en for the violation of CAN-SPAM Act.

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Corsair H60 High-Performance Hydro CPU-Cooler

I had the pleasure installing Corsair H60 High-Performance Hydro CPU-Cooler on one of the Core i7 machine a few days ago. The performance is pretty impressive, the temperature of the Intel Core i7 950 is at between 24 to 41 degree Celsius. Definitely recommend this CPU Cooling system if you’re willing to shell out roughly $90.

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Yahoo! Messenger for iOS is now optimized for iPad 2.

Yahoo! has just updated its Messenger client for iOS and is now optimized for iPad 2.

  • iPad-optimized layout
  • Voice & video calling for iPad 2
  • Improved spam management: block one or all add requests from a single view
  • Fixed multiple bugs including the unexpected sign-out issue

This update requires iOS 4.0 or Higher

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WordPress 2.8 for iOS.

WordPress 2.8 for iOS is now available at iTunes App Store.

New features:

  • Quick Photo button: only available on iPhone for now.
  • Stats
  • Added translations to Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Bosnian, Hebrew, German, Dutch, French and Croatian.

WordPress for iOS now has Stats feature just like its Android counterpart.

In addition to that, WordPress 2.8 for iOS could be the last version that supports iOS 3.x.

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Scam Alert: Fake Email Pretending To Be From Apple.

UPDATE:
The DNS registration information was changed on 2011-05-19, also noted by a reader.

Domain Name: APPLESDOWNLOAD.COM
Registrar: ELB GROUP, INC.
Whois Server: whois.retailstudio.com
Referral URL: http://www.retailstudio.com
Name Server: NS1.QUCKBO.RU
Name Server: NS2.QUCKBO.RU
Name Server: NS3.QUCKBO.RU
Name Server: NS4.QUCKBO.RU
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 19-may-2011
Creation Date: 14-mar-2011
Expiration Date: 14-mar-2012

>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 19 May 2011 20:15:58 UTC <<<

Whois info as of 2011-05-19

Domain Name: APPLESDOWNLOAD.COM

Registrant:
Vanna Berglund
Vanna Berglund        (stalk@mailae.com)
Danska Vagen 68-70
Gothenburg
Västra Gotalandslän,SE-41659
SE
Tel. +46.317078999

Creation Date: 14-Mar-2011
Expiration Date: 14-Mar-2012

Domain servers in listed order:
ns1.quckbo.ru
ns2.quckbo.ru
ns3.quckbo.ru
ns4.quckbo.ru

Administrative Contact:
Vanna Berglund
Vanna Berglund        (stalk@mailae.com)
Danska Vagen 68-70
Gothenburg
Västra Gotalandslän,SE-41659
SE
Tel. +46.317078999

Technical Contact:
Vanna Berglund
Vanna Berglund        (stalk@mailae.com)
Danska Vagen 68-70
Gothenburg
Västra Gotalandslän,SE-41659
SE
Tel. +46.317078999

Billing Contact:
Vanna Berglund
Vanna Berglund        (stalk@mailae.com)
Danska Vagen 68-70
Gothenburg
Västra Gotalandslän,SE-41659
SE
Tel. +46.317078999

Status:LOCKED

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A reader sent in a screenshot of an email pretending to be from Apple.

All clicks lead to: http://tariacuri.crefal.edu.mx/dweb/images/smilies/index.php which redirects to applesdownload.com.
It is likely that tariacuri.crefal.edu.mx site has been compromised.

applesdownload.com whois info:

Domain Name: APPLESDOWNLOAD.COM

Registrant:
Lyubov Bushmakina
Lyubov Bushmakina        ()
ul.Yuriya Gagarina d.38 k.2 kv.99
Sankt-Peterburg
Sankt-Peterburg,196105
RU
Tel. +7.8125540822
Fax. +7.8125540822

Creation Date: 14-Mar-2011
Expiration Date: 14-Mar-2012

Domain servers in listed order:
ns1.thejobrano.com
ns2.thejobrano.com

Administrative Contact:
Lyubov Bushmakina
Lyubov Bushmakina        ()
ul.Yuriya Gagarina d.38 k.2 kv.99
Sankt-Peterburg
Sankt-Peterburg,196105
RU
Tel. +7.8125540822
Fax. +7.8125540822

Technical Contact:
Lyubov Bushmakina
Lyubov Bushmakina        ()
ul.Yuriya Gagarina d.38 k.2 kv.99
Sankt-Peterburg
Sankt-Peterburg,196105
RU
Tel. +7.8125540822
Fax. +7.8125540822

Billing Contact:
Lyubov Bushmakina
Lyubov Bushmakina        ()
ul.Yuriya Gagarina d.38 k.2 kv.99
Sankt-Peterburg
Sankt-Peterburg,196105
RU
Tel. +7.8125540822
Fax. +7.8125540822

Status:LOCKED

The site is currently still up.

This is not the first time such email pretending to come from Apple.

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Can we cross the bridge now?

Lodsys explains why it’s not after Apple but only the developers for In-App Purchasing. Apple is licensed to use their patent, as a matter of fact both Google and Microsoft are also licensed.

Lodys sets the licensing fees:

Lodsys is seeking 0.575% of US revenue over for the period of the notice letter to the expiration of the patent, plus applicable past usage.  So on an application that sells US$1m worth of sales in a year, the licensee would have an economic exposure of $5,750 per year.

Lodsys also mentions that it has been getting a lot of hate mails including some death threats.

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Related articles:

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so Apple, Google and Microsoft can cross the bridge, but not people who are riding with them?

This is what the iPad Auto-Correction thinks of Lodsys: