I guess when you have spent as much time as I have on the internet, you tend to be a little skeptical reading review of products and services. Well, this morning, I was told of this website called Review Kings, which is a website with reviews on just about any product that you can find from self-improvement to make money online to Sports Betting to making web videos.

At first glance, I was thinking that this site surely has a varied review list and was surprised to learn that there are more than 5000 products reviewed and they are still adding more honest product reviews regularly!

Check out Review Kings to see the kind of products that have been reviewed and if you have ever wondered how good a certain product is, do a search on Review Kings and see if there is an honest review published already.

I read this article just this morning and am rather alarmed by it. According to PC World, there is a rare malware that targets Firefox users and phish for sensitive information like log in and financial details of banking websites and send the information to the servers of these scammers in Russia.

I think this is a pretty serious threat seeing how many people prefer Firefox over other browsers. Personally, I use Maxthon, Firefox and Opera at the same time but log in to PayPal and other banking websites via Maxthon. However, lately, I do not know what happened but logging in to PayPal crashes my Maxthon so I have tried to remember to log in to PayPal with Firefox or IE.

Reading this article at this time, with the glitch I am facing right now with my regular browser, makes me realize that I have compromised my sensitive information. I must remember not to use Firefox for online banking transactions anymore!

At first I thought that I would not be going to PC Fair in Ipoh this December because of the change in venue but I did go, after all, because coincidentally, my multimedia headphone broke a couple of days before the weekend. What luck.

I would like to emphasize that the venue is really inappropriate. The hall of the Yuk Choy primary school is situated along one of the busiest stretches of roads in Ipoh and it is dangerous especially at night. I see families with young children running across the main road and cars don’t even slow down for them. I hope PIKOM would take this safety concern into consideration when they organise the next PC Fair.

I bought my headphone when I was there but I am really interested in a netbook. RM1500 – RM2000 would be good enough for a netbook with decent specs. And I also saw a Dell laptop that is almost as thin as a Mac Book Air. Arghhh my own laptop is about three times thicker! Geram!!! Too bad I did not take down its model since I did not have plans to buy it.

Shopping during PC Fairs is really tough because of the crowd, unless one has the whole day to spend there but then who wants to get stuck in a human traffic jam the whole day? It’s really too crowded and it’s not easy to make a decision to buy unless one already has a shopping list ready and know exactly what to buy and buying it during PC Fairs would save us a little money.

Koobface is a new strain of worm that has infected a handful of Facebook users via its internal messaging system. Because Facebook and other social networks like MySpace and Friendster only allow registered members to contact each other, worm writers take advantage of the buddy system and trust between friends by spreading worms like Koobface.

With Koobface, an infected user’s computer will automatically send out messages to buddies who will receive a message with a link to a movie. Clicking on the link, the victim will receive a message which says that his computer does not have the latest copy of Adobe Flash.

Victims normally would want to view such a video clip and will naturally update their Adobe Flash software. This is a link to a fake Adobe Flash website that installs another malicious program to the victim’s computer.

And so the worm spreads like this.

Other victims have even gotten their personal information and sensitive financial information stolen this way. These victims probably have their credit card numbers linked to their social profiles.

While we have always been told to be cautious about clicking on links that come in emails even if they were sent by people we know, we now have to be careful with links that come via social messages too!

Malay Mail published an article yesterday where they reportedly have been keeping tabs of a local website that goes by the name of Cheongster, I am sure this is not the full name of the website, where the operators of a brothel have gone online so that customers could book girls over the web and then just go there for a quickie. Cheong means “rush” in Cantonese.

Apparently, customers would also get to enjoy discounts sometimes just like online retailers who offer discounts off and on. At this time of writing, the website is said to be “Under Construction” after it has been busted. Outwardly, it looks like a dating website but it is more than that. From what I understand, potential customers surfing the website could sort the girls by nationality. I wonder if they could also sort by age, price or experience.

I think that while it is bad to have websites like these easily available to anyone who surfs the web, even though there may be an 18-SX warning on the landing page, this is not something new. In the United States, there are many legal brothels that also have their own websites. And customers could also book girls, rooms and services online or by telephone.

The internet, after all, is one of the farthest reaching medium, isn’t it?