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

FAN-Pop Culture Group Topic-

◆◇FAN◇◆

For this presentation, my group picks AKB48 as the topic because lately they have extremely succeeded and you can see their ads everywhere anytime.

AKB48 is a female idol group which is produced by Yasuo Akimoto.
They are well known about their songs Ai Ta Katta（会いたかった) and Heavy Lotation（ヘビーローテーション).
You can watch their performance at AKB theatre in Akihabara, the top of the building of Don Quixote .

They seem to be very popular, yet they also seem to have some troubles with their own fans.
It probably because of their system of the position; AKB members have to get popularity to get higher position. Only high position members can show up on the TV, the music video, commersials and so on.
Some girls who could not be very popular were already fired by the producer.

So, some evil fans spread negative rumors of the members for getting down the popularity of high position members and raise their favorite members' position.

For example, one of the most well known members, Tomomi Itano(板野友美）has an awful rumor.
On the Internet, people often talk about she has had cosmetic surgery a lot.
This picture is often used when people talk about her face.

Another bad story is here; AKB48's fans buy tons of the same CDs which seems to creat fake popularity. 

Some people upload pictures on the Internet that they bought too many same CDs.
Those websites introduce that kind of cases (sorry they are all in Japanese)
http://news4vip.livedoor.biz/archives/51792371.html 
http://news4vip.livedoor.biz/archives/51792492.html

The reason wy they buy so many same CDs is, the CDs have a ticket to vote the favorite member.

AKB48 often counts the popularity of each members, and one of the ways to count the popularity is giving a ticket to vote each CD and fans vote for the favorite member.

Because the fans want to raise their favorite members' position, they buy CDs a lot and vote many times.

The fans often share those pictures on the Internet and show how they love their favorite member.



Conclusion;
Personally I am not a fan of AKB48. In fact I know only few names of the members.
Because they're lately extremely popular, and the fans often do something too much or too bad,  I think it's a kind of big issue.
AKB members are not doing something bad, but since they are very popular they get more attentions and troubles from people.