Computer Worm Expected To Act Up On April 1st!

The Conficker computer worm is expected to "act up" on April 1st 2009! (April Fool's Day!)

Once this worm activates it will be able to trigger to send spam, spread more infections, clog networks with traffic, or try and bring down Web sites.

You can read more about this by clicking here.

The Kitchen Sink!

I have been noticing for the past few days that I have been having problems getting in to my Google Adsense account and just being able to use the Google search engine.

It was quite annoying to say the least so when it happened again to me today I decided to find out more information about why this was happening.

First of all when I try to log-in to my Adsense account, I get this certificate warning kind of thing and the name on the certificate is kitchensinks!

Here is a screenshot:



I tried doing a search on them and so far haven't come up with anything but I have found some sites with people reporting that they are having the same problem - although a solution hasn't been found yet.

Here is the one relative link that I could find links:

• Warning-New Hack!

10/26/08 Update!

I have been posting around to see what more information I can find.



11/12/08 Update!

For the past few weeks I haven't been having this problem as much. It has popped up on occasion but not nearly as much as it did before! I have been able to view my Adsense and I have also been able to use the Google search engine again! Can't say that I did anything in particular to solve this problem although I did get an interesting education about a computer's "host" file - which I edited (and also saved a backup copy of the original) and now my browser(s) are working much better now!

ITotalfind!??????????

I don't know how this gets onto one's computer but it is very annoying!

What happens is that when you view a website with adsense ads on it you won't be able to see the adsense ads. Instead what you will see is ads by itotalfind!

There also seems to be a big problem when you try to get rid of this. Apparently it is a very hard thing to do! It's being classified as malware. According to Wikipedia, Malware is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent. Here is a discussion board that is discussing the topic and possible ways to get ri of it. But so far nothing seems to be working. One person posted that they tried contacting the company but still nothing has been done. Another person said that they had to reinstall their windowings operating system just to get rid of it!

It could also have something to do with it being associated with some type of affiliate program and when people join the affiliate program they get it installed on their computer.