Thursday, July 5, 2012

Possible Malware Alert

http://www.aikenstandard.com/story/V5114-AP-US-InternetWoes-4thLd-Writethru-07-05-0860
Discusses a malware that was spread to several hundred thousand
computers before the FBI caught the hackers who made it.
This malware makes it so your computers information that is projected
through the internet has to go through a server these hackers ran(to
try and explain this in simple words), it has to do with DNS being
changed.
The FBI has control of this server, and has for a long time, but they
are planning on turning it off on Monday, when they do this, if you
have this particular malware, you will no longer be able to connect to
the internet. The process you would have to go through to fix this
problem after Monday and get back online will be arduous.
The FBI directs people to this website http://www.dcwg.org  to check
if you have the malware.
Through that website they link you to http://www.dns-ok.us/ which will
check your computer for the malware. IF you do have the malware, there
is information on removal on the above site.

Anyway, just a friendly/concerned blog appeal to you guys to check you and
and your friends/families computers.
You don't have to trust me on this, google search it, do research, but
it is better to be safe than sorry in such circumstances.

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

HTML

So I am taking a class (I call it computers for idiots) at my newest college, that is a pre-req for the awesome classes I want to take so I can work on getting into a Masters program in GIS(or something along those lines). Anyhow, this classes week one assignment was 'make some screenshots and upload them to Filezilla' and I was thinking 'dear heavens how trivial, who can not do this? Well the fact that 60% of my classmates got a 70% of lower on this assignment answers my question. Well Assignment 2 is build a website in HTML. I honestly am not sure how this class is going to accomplish this. If they have issues taking screenshots and uploading them to Filezilla, how will they be able to build an HTML website? I use to build websites in the 90s/early 00s so this is trivial and childs play for me. I mainly am just obsessively adding underlayers of things to make it more beautiful.

Also, real questions on one of my quizzes.
If people really don't know the answers to these questions, they should go bury themselves in sand and die, because that is where they are at technology wise. Too far gone to recover.
These are used to express emotion in e-mail or Internet communications.
Question options:

A(n) ____ is application software that allows users to access and view Web pages.
Question options: