http://www.theinternetpatrol.com Internet Safety, Windows Updates, Internet News, and More Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:56:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Imagine speed dating, but by video chat. That's the basic premise behind ChatRoulette.com - or, at least that's what its creator would have you think. Sign in to Chat Roulette and be presented with all kinds of new friends via video chat, a few minutes with one, and ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/chatroulette-russian-roulette-video-chat-site-with-pervs-instead-of-bullets-in-the-chamber/   If you have a Mac, you are in for a treat! Amazon just released their new free "Amazon Kindle for Mac" application, and it's awesome. It allows you to not only purchase Kindle books and Kindle newspaper and magazine subscriptions directly from your desktop for delivery ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/new-amazon-kindle-for-the-mac-application-and-its-free/ In an effort to clean up after a phishing attack on Twitter, Twitter is targeting some Twitter accounts as "possibly compromised", and proactively disabling the current password for the account, and sending a "Please change your twitter password" email, which asks you to "please create a new password by opening ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/twitter-password-reset-email-not-necessarily-phishing-but-decidedly-clueless/ This is very interesting - an advance fee fraud scam aimed specifically at lawyers. In this twist on the classic Nigerian 419 advanced free scam, instead of the scammer being the "widow of a deposed dictator", the supposed damsel in distress is a woman whose "divorce was finalized here ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/new-version-of-419-scam-aimed-at-lawyers/ There is a new Western Union money transfer scam spam making the rounds. It thanks you for "using Western Union Money Transfer", and gives you a fake confirmation receipt transaction number ("control number") - in our case the Money Transfer Control number used was 1629752260. The spam includes ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/the-western-union-money-transfer-scam-spam/ If you're being plagued by cell text message spam (cell phone spam or mobile phone spam) like this one we received from 702-541-4047 - "Do you have $20,000+ in CREDIT CARD DEBT? Our national program REDUCES it by HALF! Reply "DEBT" to see if you qualify! (cuturdebts.com-optout,reply:out)" - you're not ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/how-to-stop-sms-text-spam-and-how-to-report-sms-txt-msg-spam/ The Internet is a wonderful place to do a job search. You can do a local job search just by searching for "jobs in my area", or search for jobs anywhere (such as for all USA jobs or even international job opportunities) using one of the job search engines ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/looking-for-jobs-online-doing-a-local-job-search-how-to-tell-if-a-job-is-a-scam-and-how-to-report-a-job-scam/ You've probably already heard of the .xxx domain that has been proposed, rejected, re-rejected, and reconsidered, but did you know that there are also a .god domain and a .gay domain being considered? The .xxx domain was first proposed - and provisionally approved - back in 2005, and then ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/creation-of-xxx-domain-god-domain-and-gay-domain-being-considered-by-icann-this-week/ Microsoft has issued a vulnerability security advisory (#981374) for a security hole in Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) that could allow someone to remotely execute code on your PC - that is, to remotely operate your computer. Explains Microsoft of the IE6 and IE7 vulnerability, "Microsoft is ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/microsoft-issues-security-advisory-for-security-hole-in-ie6-and-ie7/ LifeLock, the company that offers identity theft insurance, has settled a lawsuit with the FTC after the Federal Trade Commission sued LifeLock for deceptive advertising claims. LifeLock says that they were happy to settle the suit because the suit was based on facts that are two years old, and ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/lifelock-lawsuit-over-settles-deceptive-advertising-claims-with-feds-for-12million/