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Twitter has been resetting passwords for accounts that started distributing links promoting fake antivirus software in an attack that used Google’s Web address shortening service to conceal the links’ destination.

The links, masked by Google “goo.gl” URL shortener, bounce through a series of redirect URLs before landing on a Ukrainian top-level domain that then redirects to an IP address associated with other fake antivirus software scams, wrote Nicolas Brulez of Kaspersky Lab on a company blog.

Victims landing on the fake antivirus software page are prompted to scan their computer. If they approve the scan, the page asks if they want to remove threats from their computer: doing so starts the download of a bogus security program called “Security Shield.”

Fake antivirus programs remain a pervasive problem on the Internet, with hundreds of variations. The applications target Windows users, and the programs are often installed by exploiting vulnerabilities in a computer’s software. Once installed, the applications badger users to pay for a full version of the program. Many of the programs are totally ineffective at actually removing malware from a computer.

Del Harvey, head of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Team, wrote on her Twitter account that “we’re working to remove the malware links and reset passwords on compromised accounts.”

“Did you follow a goo.gl link that led to a page telling you to install ‘Security Shield’ Rogue AV?” she wrote. “That’s malware. Don’t install.”

Although Brulez classifed the attack as a worm, implying it spreads from account to account, Harvey said the issue was not related to a worm.

If the problem isn’t spreading between Twitter users, that raises the question of how the attack began.

One possibility is that it is related to an attack on Gawker Media in December. In that incident, the e-mail addresses and passwords for registered users of the media company’s Web sites were pilfered by a group called Gnosis. Twitter saw a raft of spam after the Gawker hack, as it is believed that many users used the same password for the Web sites, which made their Twitter accounts vulnerable.

Sunbelt Software, a security vendor now owned by GFI Software, provides detailed instructions of how to remove the Security Shield fake antivirus program in one of its forums.

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To facilitate our customers in the best possible manner and to offer a much better user experience on the Mobilink Voice Portal (555) we have restructured the main menu of the service.

All Voice Portal services are now clubbed in five broad categories replacing the earlier linear structure such that you can find services much faster according to your taste and mood.

Moreover to access the categories/ application from the main menu, along with voice recognition a DTMF option has also been added so that you can easily say the “category name” as soon as you enter the portal or press the relevant key. You can always go back to the main menu from any place in the menu by pressing 0.

Movies have always been an integral part of entertainment for decades, love for movies has never diminished for the people of Pakistan.

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Un-subscription process:

To unsubscribe this service user dials the IVR and select unsubscribe option from the menu. A notification SMS will also be sent to user after un-subscribing the service.

Service Charges

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KARACHI: At least eleven people were killed when a Russian-made cargo plane crashed in a fireball seconds after taking off from Karachi on Sunday, Geo News reported Sunday.

The death toll was expected to rise, with an unknown number of labourers feared killed when the Ilyushin IL-76, bound for the Sudanese capital Khartoum, slammed into buildings in the city.

“All eight people on board have died, we fear that some labourers on the ground have also been killed,” CAA spokesman said. “We do not know the exact number of those killed on ground,” he added.

Bodies of three labourers working on the construction site have also been recovered from the debris taking the toll to eleven, rescue authorities said.

Authorities said they had brought the fire under control but rescue workers were still searching for bodies.

“Recovered bodies are badly mutilated and beyond recognition,” he said.

The plane slammed into buildings under construction in the Dalmia neighbourhood.

“Rescue workers are still searching whether there are any other bodies or injured people in the debris,” a police official said.

It was the third plane accident in four months in Pakistan, a country of 170 million people where inter-city travel is most efficient by air, and the second aircraft to crash after take off from Karachi in just four weeks.

The CAA spokesman said that the jet took off from Karachi at 1:45 am (20:45 GMT Saturday) and crashed just one and a half minutes later.

Witnesses spoke of their horror at seeing a fireball racing through the night sky.

“I saw a fireball plummeting to ground,” a milk seller said. He had been going home on his motorbike after closing his shop.

“It was so huge and quick. I was terrified.”

“I couldn’t see what it was. I sped up to save my life and after a few seconds I heard a deafening explosion, but thanks to Allah my life was saved and I was not injured.”

The crash sparked fires in four or five construction sites, but officials said the number of casualties would have been far higher if the plane had struck nearby residential buildings.

Residents in nearby buildings spent the night with relatives, he added.

The US-manufactured Beech 1900C aircraft operated by local company was carrying staff from an Italian oil company to an oil field in the southern province of Sindh.

On July 28, an Airbus 321 passenger jet operated by Airblue crashed into hills near Islamabad while coming in to land after a flight from Karachi, killing 152 people on board.

Jimena Navarrete, Miss Mexico 2010, has won the pageant of Miss Universe 2010 on monday 23rd. She has become 59th Miss Universe.

Her one year long reign will include travelling  throughout the country making special appearances on behalf of the Miss Universe Organization, its sponsors and affiliated charities.

Blackwater USA is looking for mercenaries fluent in Urdu, Pakistan’s national language, and Punjabi, the language spoken by natives of Pakistan’s largest populated province. The US military already deploys officers and commando units manned by people fluent in Pashto, spoken in most of western Pakistan and southern Afghanistan. Keeping in view the denials of the US embassy in Islamabad and the expanding American presence on Pakistani soil, these recruitments are obviously not meant for running call centers. Since Washington has unilaterally decided that Pakistan is now a ‘war theater’ after Iraq and Afghanistan, it is only natural that American terrorism will also be unleashed in Pakistan. Blackwater is in Pakistan.