The Chris Gonyea Project

Ed Bott is reporting that some customers of American Express have experienced a new type of phishing that at least I haven’t seen yet. It looks like it is some type of spyware/malware on a computer that recognizes when you visit a site like American Express.

Extremely scary and I cannot imagine how many people are getting hit by this or other similar scams. Without up-to-date antivirus software, installing a hardware firewall, spyware potection, Windows Update always checking/installing updates, switching to Firefox, even switching to a Mac, etc….I don’t know what else can be done.

Problem is, I’d say a good 80+% of users have no clue about how to protect a computer properly. I fear it is going to get even worse as these bad guys get even better in hiding their work on unsuspecting computers.

It is the one thing I worry about when I visit friends or relatives. Without me constantly watching their comptuers, I just know at some point something will slip through a crack and cause some real pain, not something that a simple virus/spyware scan will resolve.

Now this is cool.

Check out Google Calendar! It is live and works extremely well in my 10 minutes of testing.

It really feels like what a calendar application should feel like. Easy to use, simple, yet powerful if you want it to be.

There is nothing that says “spring is here” better then Red Sox Opening Day. Of course it will be a 2 PM game today, which means I will be staring at the GameCast feed of the game…but hey, it is baseball.

Day Two of the new job is today. This should be interesting as I try to get a routine going and try to learn more then 3 names.

The first day at the new job went very well. Except for the fact I remembered exactly 3 names out of probably 100+ people I met. That is something that always takes some time with me…remembering everyone’s names.

It is a change of pace with no traveling and I think I am going to enjoy it.