Summary

The scum distributing malware are at it again with a new Fourth of July attack using social engineering techniques to lure unwary users to visit websites where malware payloads will infect their PCs.

Delete any message you receive with these characteristics - DO NOT VISIT their links!

Subject: Independence Day firework broke all records

Message body: Proud to be an American http:// 69.176.42.197 /

Do Not Visit Any Address In These Messages

Summary

The following file is a spam distributed payload which will infect your computer with virus or trojan malware.

Do not click on it if you see it in an e-mail - it will harm your computer!

• video1.exe

Secretary Carlos Gutierrez had a laptop computer with him on a recent trip to China but left it out of sight for some time during the visit. Shortly thereafter, his department's computer network may have been the target of serious and concentrated attacks from China reports say.

"the results are excellent as we have seen an immediate increase in revenue across the board," said the ad network's statement.

Your author is a blogger and magazine publisher using Chitika but I've yet to see any revenue attributable to the new CPM advertising inventory.

While a big step up from zero in-account ad review capabilities, the execution, as is common with Google and especially the AdSense and AdWords departments, fails in several key areas.