Weekly Blog#4 Malware

I'd like to talk about Malware since I have experienced it on facebook and MSN messenger.
Let me tell you about my experiences of Malware first ( because I think you already know about Malware).

Case I
One day I got a message from my friend on facebook, and it says "you gotta watch this video! it's so funny XD" or something like that.
I didn't doubt anything about it since it doesn't sound weird for me.
Then, suddenly same kind of messages were sent to almost all of my friends on facebook.
So, I posted a message like " Do not open the video that is sent from me, because it's virus. I am so sorry about that".
Then, I told my friend who sent the message to me ( he didn't send it on purpose though...) about the situation.
He didn't even know what was happening.

Case II
The next one happened to my MSN messenger account.
One day I got a message with URL which says " this is your picture! you look hilarious :P" or whatever.
Again, I didn't doubt anything at all and click it, and same kind of message spread out.
Okay, now you can call me an IDIOT or say バカスｗｗｗ.
Anyways, so one of my friends told me that that is virus and I have to change the password.
I love her so much.
After that, I got same kind of things many times and I never opened it.
Some of my friends complained that too many people kept sending that stupid messages which is annoying. It hurt my ears.
Now I no longer use MSN messenger, I just prefer Skype.

Case III
It is not something Malware did to me directly, but...
One day my friend suddenly called me and said "I got computer virus. Can you help me with that?".
He did not use anti-virus software ( or he did not even know about it).
I am not that knowledgeable about computers, so I called another friend whose major is engineering, and asked some help. He and I went to my stupid friend's house around 8pm or something and checked what's going on the computer.
I guess my friend used Avast for that.
It took for a while and everything was done around 11:30pm.
It happened on Sunday and I had an early morning class next day.
I didn't finish my homework so I could not sleep that night because of the stupid virus and friend.
Also I had to apologize my nice friend who removed the virus from the computer for the idiot.


What I learn from these experiences
So, before I click  doubtful URLs, I try to check if the website is safe or not.
You can check it from this website; gred でチェック
Sorry it's in Japanese and I don't know any of this kind of English website.
Type (or copy and paste )the URL in the bar which is located top of the page.

Click the red button saying " check",wait for a few seconds, and if the website is safe gred says "safe".

However, this website cannot find all of the bad programs since finding all of bad programs is almost impossible...
It just helps you to avoid those bad websites.

So, if you got that bad sort of programs, change the password of SNS, remove the virus from your computer or throw your computer from your window and never touch any computer again.
I strongly recommend you to get anti-virus software.
Some people say they are fine so they don't use it. Yea, they are maybe fine, but THEIR FRIENS ARE NOT FINE with it, like what my stupid friend did to me on Sunday evening.
I recommend Mac users to have anti-virus software too.
I know most of virus are for windows, but there is still possibility.


Here is my questions for final; You don't need to change your password when you get a Malware at a SNS. True or False.








....It doesn't really relate to the topic, but I heard one rumor ; guys get computer virus more often than girls because of porn ( a lot of porn videos on the Internet often contain virus).
Also I heard another rumor that if a guy gets a computer virus, it's 90% because of porn or something sexual.
Is that true?

Weekly Blog#3

Timmmmyboy assignment.

So, Tim Owen's talks about his background and idea of being artist.
He thinks any kind of people are artists, no matter what is their major.
Your life is full of art and creative things, and ds106 is a good chance to improve your creativity.
I like his phrase "People are more creative when they are hungry", that's funny.

However, I want to be just an audience rather than artist.
I used to learn art seriously, yet one day I realized that I like art, but I don't want to be an artist or designer.
I just love to see artworks at a museum. That's me.
Still sometimes I enjoy drawing, yet I don't want to think myself an artist.
I like cooking and making dishes pretty, I love wearing make up which probably Mr.Owen thinks art.
Yet these don't make me feel like I'm an artist.
I'd rather think myself as an audience.

Timmmmyboy

Phake Tweets

This assignment is fake tweeting; imagine, what would you tweet if you were a famous historical person?

As Cleopatra, I tweet "

So, which one should I do before I attract Caesar...breast implant or making my nose taller?"

I assume she would be cosmetic surgery freak if she was in modern world.

YES!!!! I've successfully attracted Caesar and now he's my husband! the world belongs to me!!!

would you buy a diamond ring for me at Tiffany, Darling? @Caesar

I cannot imagine how big diamond she would ask him to buy.

Here, I tweet as Caesar.

Sure, honey. What else do you want? @ Cleopatra

and Cleopatra again,

THIS WORLD!!!!!! @ Caesar

She wants engage ring and world for their marriage.











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Video Essay

So, this essay should be about movies or audio commentary, but since I have personal reason to love this video, I want to talk about it.

This video is about Kimi Raikkonen who used to be an F1 driver.
He was a great driver, especially in Suzuka circuit 2005.
In the race, he started in the end of the line and won the race!
I was watching the race there around chicane corner with my father.
I cannot forget the excitement!

He couldn't go ahead from his rival until the final lap, but he was calm all the time.
He never got upset. He quietly made the distance between him and his rival shorter.
When he finally went ahed from his rival in the final lap, every audience stood up.
The moment was so great that I cannot explain in words!!!!!



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Google Map Story

This place is my favorite Ramen Store Hongo-Tei. Probably the most famous ramen store in Nagoya.
It is located behind Nagoya station.
The inside doesn't really look like ramen store because a lot of Hawaiian things are displayed (I don't know why).

2 years ago I went there with my boyfriend and a lot of guys in suites and college boys were there without their girl friends.
Their eyes were NOT warm at all when we came in the store lol

The A mark on the map is the place of Hongo-Tei.



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Haiku it up -一句詠みました-

Okay, since I am Japanese, I want to make a Japanese Haiku for it.
紅葉に　衣替えをと　教えられ
That means the leaves turn to yellow and red colors and I realize that it's time to change summer clothes to winter ones.

It's inspired by  nbrach' flickr picture. 




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Movie Fortunes

「１たす１が、１より小さいとは、ボク思わない！」

"I don't think 1+1 would be less than 1!!!!!!" by Nobita Nobi
An anime movie "ドラえもん　のび太の太陽王伝説”, Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King.

When a King is trying to duel with two guys, the main character, Nobita offers to help him but he rejects Nobita. So Nobita shouts at him that phrase and then the king changes his decision and accepts Nobita's offer.

This phrase is very touchy and beautiful.
It's just from an anime movie, but I still love it.
I think the movie tells children about importance of friendship with that phrase which is good.

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Typography-my name

So, for this assignment I used a chinese character 熊(bear) that is part of my name.
I know the description asks to use "letters" but I want to make something funny for my assignment, so...sorry for that :P
Does the shape look like a face of bear? I hope so.

I used adobe illustrator CS4.

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Car Lust

I got this image from a blog 我が日ス輪は永久に不滅です！written by　み・そ・じ

This car is Impreza STI of SUBARU( WRX STI specC typeRA-R).

There are some versions of Impreza, and this version's Japanese nickname is 涙目(tear eyes).

I just love the blue color of SUBARU and the tear eyes.

I also love the butt♥so cute!

I got this picture from  BLUE　ZERO～山形から発信～　　Don’t forget to try in mind written  by zero-1128.

This version's design is so girly for me, so STI is a GIRL! ( for me, lancer evolution and GTR are guys).

It's a kind of small, very round and cute design. And the blue is so attractive and the gold wheels are just perfect color for it. 

It's not a super expensive or powerful car like Ferrari or Lamborghini, yet I just love the design. 

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ds 106 ClouDoraemonchu

The blue boy's name is Doraemon, the main character of an anime.

Needless to say, "Pica-chu" is the voice of the Pikachu, the popular Pokemon.

If you don't know about Cloud Strife, click here to jump wikipedia.

I used adobe Photoshop CS4 to this assignment.

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ds106...?

I am totally lost so far but trying to figure out what I have to do.
I kinda made a design and I have no idea if it works for the assignment or not.

Here is my design;

It shows playing Mario; game controller represents video game obviously, the mushroom in the game, the Piranha Plant (パックンフラワー in Japanese), and the crown shows the princess, Peach that he saves in the story.

I used adobe illustrator CS4 to this assignment.

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