Biodegradable Geek

External Links Being Hidden Behind Emoticons/Smilies

Lately, I’ve noticed a lot of the spam comments on my blogs contain links concealed behind smilies. This helps you place any URL on a forum or a blog, without raising any red flags, as would happen if you blatantly add links to your posts or signature. It’s not obvious that this paragraph is just [...]

RescueTime’s 22 Gigabyte notifier.debuglog Log File

I did find it weird that I kept running out of disk space recently. That hasn’t happened in years, and most of my big files go on another HD. On top of that, this box has been sluggish lately, even taking into account the fact that it’s ~4 years old and I always have 5-6 [...]

Spy on your Enemies and Loved Ones for Fun and Profit

The following is a stealthy keylogger I wrote in C a few years ago called LogThatShit (LTS). It was written on and for Windows XP, and probably works on Vista, but User Account Access (UAC) might prompt the user for a password. It began as a complete Remote Administration Tool (RAT) named Overdose. I realized [...]

“Exclusive Domain Investments” Emails are Spam

I recently got an email in my junk folder (I browse it for false positives sometimes) from “Exclusive Domain Investments,” a supposed domain brokerage firm representing a client interested in buying one of my domains. It’s not a scam, but it’s clever. Here’s the email: FROM: “Exclusive Domain Investments” <domianinvestor1999@gmail.com> SUBJECT: Is <domain removed> for [...]