Tuesday, March 31, 2009

CONFICKER WARNING - VIRUS ATTACK

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CONFICKER WARNING - BACKUP YOUR SYSTEMS AND DATA TODAY - URGENT!
--Douglas Castle

Tomorrow -- April 1 -- is D-Day for Conficker, as whatever nasty payload it's packing is currently set to activate. What happens come midnight is a mystery: Will it turn the millions of infected computers into spam-sending zombie robots? Or will it start capturing everything you type -- passwords, credit card numbers, etc. -- and send that information back to its masters?
No one knows, but we'll probably find out soon.

Or not. As Slate notes, Conficker is scheduled to go "live" on April 1, but whoever's controlling it could choose not to wreak havoc but instead do absolutely nothing, waiting for a time when there's less heat. They can do this because the way Conficker is designed is extremely clever: Rather than containing a list of specific, static instructions, Conficker reaches out to the web to receive updated marching orders via a huge list of websites it creates. Conficker.C -- the latest bad boy -- will start checking 50,000 different semi-randomly-generated sites a day looking for instructions, so there's no way to shut down all of them. If just one of those sites goes live with legitimate instructions, Conficker keeps on trucking.

Conficker's a nasty little worm that takes serious efforts to bypass your security defenses, but you aren't without some tools in your arsenal to protect yourself.

Your first step should be the tools you already have: Windows Update, to make sure your computer is fully patched, and your current antivirus software, to make sure anything that slips through the cracks is caught.

But if Conficker's already on your machine, it may bypass certain subsystems and updating Windows and your antivirus at this point may not work. If you are worried about anything being amiss -- try booting into Safe Mode, which Conficker prevents, to check -- you should run a specialized tool to get rid of Conficker.

Microsoft offers a web-based scanner (note that some users have reported it crashed their machines; I had no trouble with it), so you might try one of these downloadable options instead: Symantec's Conficker (aka Downadup) tool, Trend Micro's Cleanup Engine, or Malwarebytes. Conficker may prevent your machine from accessing any of these websites, so you may have to download these tools from a known non-infected computer if you need them. Follow the instructions given on each site to run them successfully. (Also note: None of these tools should harm your computer if you don't have Conficker.)

As a final safety note, all users -- whether they're worried about an infection or know for sure they're clean -- are also wise to make a full data backup today.

What won't work? Turning your PC off tonight and back on on April 2 will not protect you from the worm (sorry to the dozens of people who wrote me asking if this would do the trick). Changing the date on your PC will likely have no helpful effect, either. And yes, Macs are immune this time out.

This warning appears courtesy of Yahoo!

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle
http://aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com/






CONFICKER WARNING - VIRUS ATTACK

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CONFICKER WARNING - BACKUP YOUR SYSTEMS AND DATA TODAY - URGENT!
--Douglas Castle

Tomorrow -- April 1 -- is D-Day for Conficker, as whatever nasty payload it's packing is currently set to activate. What happens come midnight is a mystery: Will it turn the millions of infected computers into spam-sending zombie robots? Or will it start capturing everything you type -- passwords, credit card numbers, etc. -- and send that information back to its masters?
No one knows, but we'll probably find out soon.

Or not. As Slate notes, Conficker is scheduled to go "live" on April 1, but whoever's controlling it could choose not to wreak havoc but instead do absolutely nothing, waiting for a time when there's less heat. They can do this because the way Conficker is designed is extremely clever: Rather than containing a list of specific, static instructions, Conficker reaches out to the web to receive updated marching orders via a huge list of websites it creates. Conficker.C -- the latest bad boy -- will start checking 50,000 different semi-randomly-generated sites a day looking for instructions, so there's no way to shut down all of them. If just one of those sites goes live with legitimate instructions, Conficker keeps on trucking.

Conficker's a nasty little worm that takes serious efforts to bypass your security defenses, but you aren't without some tools in your arsenal to protect yourself.

Your first step should be the tools you already have: Windows Update, to make sure your computer is fully patched, and your current antivirus software, to make sure anything that slips through the cracks is caught.

But if Conficker's already on your machine, it may bypass certain subsystems and updating Windows and your antivirus at this point may not work. If you are worried about anything being amiss -- try booting into Safe Mode, which Conficker prevents, to check -- you should run a specialized tool to get rid of Conficker.

Microsoft offers a web-based scanner (note that some users have reported it crashed their machines; I had no trouble with it), so you might try one of these downloadable options instead: Symantec's Conficker (aka Downadup) tool, Trend Micro's Cleanup Engine, or Malwarebytes. Conficker may prevent your machine from accessing any of these websites, so you may have to download these tools from a known non-infected computer if you need them. Follow the instructions given on each site to run them successfully. (Also note: None of these tools should harm your computer if you don't have Conficker.)

As a final safety note, all users -- whether they're worried about an infection or know for sure they're clean -- are also wise to make a full data backup today.

What won't work? Turning your PC off tonight and back on on April 2 will not protect you from the worm (sorry to the dozens of people who wrote me asking if this would do the trick). Changing the date on your PC will likely have no helpful effect, either. And yes, Macs are immune this time out.

This warning appears courtesy of Yahoo!

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle
http://aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com/






Friday, March 27, 2009

INCENTIVES TO U.S. EXPORTERS

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Dear Friends:

EXIM Bank is promoting many incentives, as well as promising pledges of support, to exporters, and to U.S. companies which want to become participants in outbound international trade. Please read about these incentives and pledges in today's article in THE INTERNATIONALIST PAGE.

Also, THE INTERNATIONALIST PAGE has added several new resource links which should be of interest ot any company engaged in, or contemplating exportation. These include the following:

FOREIGN EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES IN THE U.S.
FEDERAL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
U.S. TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
EXPORT.GOV - TRADE ASSISTANCE
U.S. COMMERCIAL SERVICE - EXPORT LEADS

Visit THE INTERNATIONALIST, and make sure to subscribe to THE NATIONAL NETWORKER at http://thetnnwomnigadget.blogspot.com/.

Networking is a global pursuit -- more today, than ever before.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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Thursday, March 19, 2009

WHAT WILL YOU DO ABOUT IT?

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Dear Friends:


A future (and the good news is that there will be one!) fraught with some very interesting, but frightful possibilities lies before us. If we fail to think about these possibilities, we are abdicating our "say" in our future. Put in more offensive terms, if we fail to act, we will invariably become the victims of someone else's actions.

In a recent post in TAKING COMMAND!, I briefly discussed some of these "unthinkable" possibilities. The article, in ful, follows.

The real issue facing every interactive Global Futurist is what can be done to a) stop some of these things from actually occurring? (i.e., a pre-emptive intervention), or, b) what can be done in the event that these things do come to pass, and we wish to navigate around them successfully.

THE FUTURE DOES NOT JUST HAPPEN - IT IS CREATED OUT OF THE PRESENT.

This premise imposes a greater responsibility upon any Global Futurist than mere prognostication. It imposes a burden of strategic intervention. This begs the question,"Do we predict the future, or do we make it?" My answer is frightful but honest: We do some of each.
Enjoy the article...



Dear Friends:

One can and does, paradoxically, think about the "unthinkable". You have to visualize, at minimum, the terrors which you dare not venture to think about, and in so doing, you have given them the keys to the darkest corridors of your imagination. We often term things"unthinkable" simple because they are unconscionable, terrifying or of consquences that we are unprepared to contend with. Everything, de facto, is thinkable.

Let's exercise our ability to anticipate that which we should not dare to anticipate, discuss it (hypothetically, of course), and address it (either standing upright, or from under the bed).

Join me:

1. Giant computer service providers like Google and Yahoo (to name only two) have access to as much information about every individual computer user, credit card user, property owner, bank account holder, taxpayer, scofflaw, outlaw, porno-downloader, consumer and other person who has transacted something as seemingly inconsequential as filling up his or her gas tank or walking into a 7-11 for a Slurpee than the NSA does. And these companies not only have all of our identity information, but they have all of our passcodes. If they chose to, they could literally take over our identities and our entire lives -- we are at their mercy, and we trust them. The government relies upon them, utilizes their systems, and by simple logic, cannot police them -- nor would they be inclined to. We are in a naked society. We are, by a lack of vision and vigilance, targets. As with Samson and Delilah, persons or organizations comprised of persons will always use the power that they are given...it is Human Nature. It is only a matter of time.


2. Your credit rating, long regarded as so precious, so sacred and so crucial to a respectable existence, is a nostalgic farce. Credit card companies are aggressively cutting credit lines without adequate cause or notice, and leaving their cardholders with miniscule credit lines, sudden "overdrafts" and "over limit drafts," and are actually charging them fees, as they deprive them of credit and irreparably blemish the credit reports issued to the three major credit bureaus with unexplained reductions in credit lines, overdrafts and all other manner of default. Your credit rating, if you are like most people in the United states, will be destroyed. But take heart -- the financial institutions are not interested in extending credit to consumers anymore. You credit rating may well become as meaningless and as vestigial as the batting average of a pet shop owner. Remember Mr. Peebles? Magilla Gorilla has been repossessed.


3. The IRS, which is a contractor and not even a righteous government agency, is hell-bent on collecting money from an all-but-destitute society. They are, practically speaking, immune to due process, and charged with the responsiblity of feeding the government so that it may be fruitful and multiply (in size and deficit). They can assess you any tax which they feel "may be due," levy and lien any of your assets without contest, charge you usurious interest and fees on spuriously determined delinquent amounts. In fact, in a soon-to-be cashless society, they will be undoubtedly given the power to directly debit sums, as they judge appropriate, directly from your bank accounts (and the banks are actually an extension of the Executive Branch of government) -- if they are wrong (and they are wrong most of the time), you'll have to retain counsel to fight back...ironically, as your funds have already been depleted, you won't have the money required to retain a lawyer. Talk about irony! Going further, be advised that your cash will all have to be declared and banked before a critical date when paper currency is rendered illegal. This will make things easier for the DEA, the FBI, The Treasury Department, The Secret Service and all of the other agencies that are chartered to investigate, confiscate, eviscerate and incarcerate. We will be afforded the opportunity to commiserate. That will be our only "-ate".

4. Private enterprise will cease to exist as it becomes fused with the government. Any conventional employment will, in effect, be government work. Think of Huricane Katrina on a national level. The only "free enterprise" will be small and entrepreneurial. Genius and spontaneity will become increasingly persecuted, and often forced into hiding by a government and a social establishment in fear of being posed with "dangerous" questions which might lead to "revolutionary" actions.

5. That last sanctuary and sanctum of privacy, your cranial vault, will remain the last repository of original, "unthinkable" thought. The trouble which I foresee, is the most frightening thing that I have ever envisioned -- it may reach a point, within your own mind, when you have become so indoctrinated with "groupthink" and assumption that you are no longer able to determine which thoughts are genuinely your own, and which are deeply implanted through pervasive, invasive external influence.

Have a wonderful day.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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Saturday, March 14, 2009

THE TRUTH ABOUT ETHICS AND RESPONSIBILITY IN BIG BUSINESS

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Dear Friends:

You can read a fascinating article about the modern day "Pirates Of the Caribbean" by clicking on http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/business/15AIG.html?_r=1&hp.

A very brief synopsis follows for those of you who are impatient, or pressed for time in your struggles to find employment, pay debts and keep your lives (and sanity) together:

Breaking News Alert: The New York Times, Saturday, March 14, 2009 -- 8:23 PM ET-----

A.I.G. to Pay $100 Million in Bonuses After Huge Bailout

Despite being bailed out with more than $170 billion from theTreasury and Federal Reserve, the American International Group is preparing to pay about $100 million in bonuses to executives in the same business unit that brought the company to the brink of collapse last year. [End of summary]
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After Merrill Lynch's pilferage, and numerous other widely-known and shameless acts of incredible selfishness and brazen wastefulness, this should not strike anybody as particularly unexpected. Rest assured that there will be some balking on the part of numerous regulators and the usual background white noise of the public "outcry," but that these generous rewards for fiscal irresponsibility, gross misconduct and profligate lifestyles of shameless entitlement will be paid out in full to each of the crew members. Rest assured that there will be no major civil investigations or criminal proceedings brought against any of these payees, or of the government policymakers and politicians who have failed to stop this leakage in the once-proud American Republic. The mythical character Gordon Gekko was a petty thief by comparison.

Those who have violated the basic tenets of moral decency shall be richly rewarded. Those who have been displaced, dispossed, foreclosed upon and destroyed emotionally, as well as fiscally -- perhaps the American Public At Large -- will continue to 1) be punished, and 2) to pick up the tab for the unindicted criminals and social miscreants who victimized them. Liars, thieves, con-artists, hypocrites, as well as their cadre of aiders, abetters and enablers, shall live more comfortably than ever before, while the impotent, disenchanted, war-weary people receive no relief, and ever-heightening abuse. For some, the United States was once indeed perceived as the land of opportunity. The once highly-regarded notions of fairness and justice have been exiled, leaving a sorrowful vaccuum in their wake. I am in mourning for the United States, the country that my grandparents came to to find opportunity, a fair chance at success, human dignity and constitutional justice.

Banks are getting out of the business of all consumer and commercial lending. They are cutting back on credit card credit limits, without reasonable notice and due cause, and have the unmitigated temerity to charge good, paying customers "surprise" over limit fees. New credit solicitations are going out, but they are purely a public relations ploy. If banks no longer finance either production or consumption, they are merely safe deposit deposit boxes with overly-large offices. They are worse than useless -- they are economically destructive. But their executives are being rewarded with colossal bonuses and an absence of controls, oversight or regulation. Jeez...don't you wish you owned a bank?

Insurance companies are getting out of the business of writing insurance policies or paying reasonable claims. This means that your premiums are merely an extorted, one-sided annuity for the companies that are supposed to protect you when you are ill, unable to earn income, unable to pay your bills, or to collect on debts owed you by defaulting creditors. If you become disabled or die, you cannot count on them to provide promised payments to your family to permit their survival -- and if you have a medical procedure, regardless of how critically necessary, expect to do battle with their legal counsel in order to be reimbursed for the inflated and exhorbitant costs of your treatment. Like the banks, they are in the business of stealing your money, and never returning it to you. And like the banks, their executives continue to be richly rewarded.

Automobile companies, long-known to be inefficient and low on quality, want government subsidies (and are receiving them) so that they may continue to pay out large bonuses to key individuals while they actually decrease production of automobiles and continue to layoff thousands of workers.

It has become virtually impossible to draw the line, any line, between an incompetent and ethically-compromised government, and the heads of the large corporations that control them like mad puppeteers. These carpetbaggers are filling their pockets and every other available container with all of the money that they can take.

It comes down to bahavioral psychology. Simply, when there are no rewards for ethics and responsibility, people, particularly those in power, will abandon them for other, more remunerative pursuits.

Capitalism, without any parameters of ethics and responsibility, has a propensity to self-destruct and deteriorate to a form of feudalism. It is happening today. There are even some who believe that the stage is being set for revolution in the United States. I find this prospect very frightening.

Capitalism is not the enemy, per se...it is the perpetrators, both in government and in corporate America who need to be brought to account.

Within these next few years, the only people who will be left standing in this science-fiction desertscape will be 1) the thieves and miscreants who are busily stealing at the expense of the national and global economy, and 2) the few entrepreneurs and networkers among us.
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Neither the government or the large corporations can save us. Look to the ingenuity of the entrepreneurs, the business visionaries and the newly-emerging leaders of small business and private entrepreneurship to rebuild from the rubble.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle
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Monday, March 9, 2009

THE NEW AGE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR/ NETWORKER

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THE NEW AGE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR/ NETWORKER
Originally published by Douglas Castle in THE GLOBAL FUTURIST (3/09/09)
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Dear Friends:

There is no avoiding the cloud that hangs over us.

We are in a deepening global economic recession -- a condition that touches all of us financially and emotionally. It forces us to change our plans, to conserve limited resources, to become increasingly introspective...to feel the twinge of our own smallness in the confines of a giant universe, and to re-examine our values and our very mortality. We become more internalized, less robotic and more frantic, if paralysis doesn't seize us first.

The bulk of the world's non-agricultural workforce is dependent upon either conventional private sector (corporate, institutional or professional) employment, or government work. During the course of the last ten years, an increasing percentage of the G-8 workforce has been absorbed into the conventional or governmental works. This is not surprising, as healthcare and other costs continue to rise, retirement becomes an increasingly expensive proposition and the economies associated with larger employers make it possible for them to cover the needs of these individuals far more economically than through individual arrangements. Employee benefits constitute an increasing percentage of employee compensation, as well as motivation. It is increasingly the perception of the masses that entrepreneurship is too fraught with uncertainty, long hours, and very hard work to be a sensible calling. As commoners, we flock to the time-honored protection of the "conventional career path."

The conventional career path, by definition, creates apathy in the crucial areas of entrepreneurial skills and disciplines. As I write these words, an indolent, dependent, uncultivated layer of "middle management" and labor is being displaced as their former protectors scramble for the protections afforded them by bankruptcy or government aid (I think that this is a swell euphemism for other terms such as "bailout," "welfare," "subsidy," or "bridge loan," which last term has actually come to mean a unilateral capital infusion without requirement of guarantees, collateral, constraints on application of proceeds, accountability, a plan for repayment, or an incentive for change in the status quo."). When I recently discussed the notions of "companies that are too big to fail," and "the government's systematic and expected rewarding of poor corporate conduct with 'free' money," with a friend, she explained to me (in a kind, but slightly condescending matter), "but Douglas, we have no options!" I disagree.

I believe that as long as we are alive we have options. The very perception of "no options" is either paralytic, or is apt to cause very poor, short-term decisionmaking.

A word of displaced, emotionally devasted and fiscally insolvent "worker bees" have been let down by a system that had to fail. They do not know how to promote, to build, to innovate, to re-invent themselves, to run businesses and to network beyond their cronies at the office. These brothers and sisters are in deep trouble -- and no one can just bail them out. They must be re-tooled to be entrepreneurial, networking vital people. As entrepreneurs and networkers, as globalists and futurists, we must help them to find new ways to survive...to restore their finances, to develop a sense of purpose and a successful attitude, and to resdiscover and activate their skills.

This is now the AGE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR/NETWORKER. We need to re-dedicate ouselves to be more entrepreneurial, more imaginitive, more innovative and more efficient networkers and socializers than ever before. Now is our time. And if we are kind, we are ethically obligated to help create hopes and opportunities for those less fortunate persons who fell under the thrall of the conventional career path.

I am recommending (strongly), that we, each of us, forward this article to everyone whom we know, and insist that they join:

1. THE NATIONAL NETWORKER (free subscription, awe-inspiring services and connection opportunities), and

2) INTERNAL ENERGY PLUS (with its online interactive support group at http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/INTERNAL_ENERGY_PLUS/ or visit our blogs at http://DouglasCastleIEP.blogspot.com and http://TheInternalEnergyPlusForum.blogspot.com.

Now is the time to spread the word, build membership, circle our wagons, and to come out fighting!

As stated previously: THE FUTURE WILL NOT MAKE US -- WE WILL MAKE THE FUTURE.

Respectfully,

Douglas Castle

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

YOUR PRIVACY - WHAT REMAINS OF IT

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Dear Friends:

Privacy is a critical issue and a basic Human Right -- or so we would like to think.

Click on the post which follows (courtesy of THE NATIONAL NETWORKER) and read about the current state of your affairs, and the double-edged power of internet technology:


The only truly safe repository and trustee of your truth is within the confines of your own cranium.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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