Fake Magazine Covers

Here is a question for you…Have you ever wanted to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated? Or any magazine for that matter? Think of the fun you can have with your friends and family to have a magazine cover with your picture on it, printed and framed, hanging on your wall.

Well, I have found this site where you can get Fake Magazine Covers and it will not cost you a single cent. Check it out, this site has more than 100 magazine covers for you to have your picture placed on. Very simple to do, and no I am not going to put my picture on a cover!

All you have to do is go to the site, Fake Magazine Covers, and upload your picture. Simple to do as the uploader is right at the top right. Once you have uploaded your picture, find the magazine cover or magazine covers you want your picture on. Just easy to do and then print your cover for a nice memento and of course to frame.

Do go by this site soon and start having fun, it is as I said free. And do let your family, friends and coworkers know about this site. Heck, then you can all compare your magazine covers with one another and see who has the best, and the worst.

• http://covervision.com

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Computer generated fake papers are flooding academia

This story is all over the Internet, even making the Guardian newspaper. Im not entirely sure I agree with the statement that fake papers are "flooding" academia, but nonetheless it is worrying that bogus papers are being published by reputable publishers like Springer and the IEEE. However, in their defense these organisations/publishers do delegate the decisions on academic quality to individual conference chairs and programme committees. Its also not true that conferences with poor or negligible standards are just restricted to China. In 2004 I had two MSc students write and submit papers to a conference taking place in Wellington, New Zealand (KES2004). The students work was not very good and the papers they wrote were quite unexceptional and I fully expected that they would be duly rejected. I thought the rejection would be a good learning experience for the students and may encourage them to work harder in future; both were somewhat arrogant.
    I was very surprised, and slightly mortified, when both papers were accepted by the conference. My name was on these papers as co-author and knew them to be substandard. Nonetheless, I thought that attending the conference might be a good experience for the students. When they returned I was very surprised to see that the conference proceedings, published by Springer in their LNCS series, ran to two volumes of 600+ pages each. Nowhere in the proceedings introduction did it say how many papers were submitted for review and what percentage were accepted. This conference series, run by a respected UK academic, seemed like a vanity publishing project to me.

from The Universal Machine http://universal-machine.blogspot.com/

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Remove Update your browser Fake Warning Uninstall Guide

A new scareware campaign is circulating that appears to be a Mozilla Firefox (could be any other web browser) update warning. It seems that cyber crooks continue to make improvements to their social engineering lures. Fake online virus scanners when users get standard "My Computer" dialog may not work anymore because they become very well documented recently. Heres a screenshot of what the fake browser update notification looks like:

Update your browser
This page does not support your version of browser
Please update your software
Browser update

Unfortunately, it could be a successful social engineering attack against Internet users who are still using old and out-of-date web browsers. Besides, there are safe websites that use JavaScript to inform users about out-of-date web browser and in some cases, MSN forum for example, you can leave a reply with Internet Explorer only. If you visit their forum with Firefox or Chrome, youll get a notification that your web browser is not supported. So, it could be rather difficult for some Internet users to distinguish between "Update your browser" scareware attack and legit update notifications. If you have you received this fake "Update your browser" warnings, chances that your computer is infected with a rootkit. Do not click "Browser update" button, otherwise youll download more malware onto your computer. Also, if you want to check for updates, use web browsers options, ignore notifications from websites even if they appear to be from well know and popular sites. To remove the fake Update your browser warning and associated malware, please follow the removal instructions below. If you have any questions, please leave a comment below or email us. Good luck and be safe online!

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"Update your browser" removal instructions:

1. Scan your computer with TDSSKiller and ZeroAccess rootkit removal tool.
2. Download free anti-malware software from the list below and run a full system scan.

• Hitman Pro 3.5
• MalwareBytes Anti-malware
• SUPERAntispyware
• Spybot S&D

NOTE: in some cases the rogue program may block anti-malware software. Before saving the selected program onto your computer, you may have to rename the installer to iexplore.exe or winlogon.exe With all of these tools, if running Windows 7 or Vista they MUST be run as administrator. Launch the program and follow the prompts. Dont forget to update the installed program before scanning.

3. Run CCleaner to remove temporarily and unnecessary files from your computer.
4. If the problem persists, please read this web document and follow the steps carefully: http://deletemalware.blogspot.com/2010/02/remove-google-redirect-virus.html

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