Peter Bromberg's UnBlog

Those nasty spammers have apparently reappeared, using a private domain registration through GoDaddy. What they do is capture your Windows Live Messenger credentials under the ruse that they will show you all your blocked contacts (which is easy enough to do yourself with libraries like DotMsn - without the security risks). What they don't tell you is that if you do this, your account is now compromised -- and they'll send every one of your contacts a message (since it's your credentials, it appears from you , a trusted contact) that tells you to go visit their site and sucker for it too. There's only one solution if you suckered for it - you have to change your Live.com password immediately . Just look at this: "The longly[sic] awaited feature for MSN Messenger, completely for free[sic]!" When you click on their Privacy page link, you get nada! What a scam. Unfortunately, from reading the newsgroup and forum posts, it appears that thousands of people are ge...

There was a post on one of the groups recently by a developer who was making a number of WebRequests for various pages, claiming that one of them would strangely fail. Yet, this individual stated that if he would paste the respective URL into his browser, that page would come up just fine. There are several things that could come into play here with various sites: 1) Many sites will reject a request that doesn't match a particular one or more User Agent strings ( Here are some samples , if your memory is rusty). So you can add the UserAgent header to the WebRequest. I've even seen some wise-asses who detect Internet Exploder and give you a nasty message about how immoral you are and you should go download Firefox to become a real person and how dare you try to view my site with ..etc... (Listen, Pal: I already figured out you are a Webtard, so I'm not going to bother to fire up my copy of Firefox to see your page, which I already know is worthless. Besides, your little shen...