i-thread internet dangers. Malicious code & ponzi mlms.

I hope that none of you have to learn about these the hard way. I did and it was a nightmare. Most of the security software that we use on our computers today was designed to deter opportunist thieves, spyware and viruses. I-threads are the work of organised criminals from Countries like Russia and they have already caused untold problems in North America and Western Europe. The i-thread exploits vulnerabilities in Microsoft software, which enables a hacker to insert a piece of Java code on any of your own web pages or your affiliate urls. If anybody clicks on a link in a page, which has an i-thread on it, that person will download a trojan which gives the hacker their e-gold passphrase and in many cases they can turn a person’s PC into a zombie which is controlled by hackers. A fantasy? Watch this movie. Sit down with a drink of some sort and prepare yourself for a real “horror film.” There is no need to buy the software. You can get cheaper alternatives.

The most important defence against this extremely dangerous threat is to know the symptoms. Please bookmark these two threads and keep up with the forums to learn more about the dangers.

I was fortunate in the sense that my web host answered an urgent e-mail within a few minutes and deleted the malicious Java code. It was an advertisement for Stella Artois beers, which could only be seen if you were watching the status bar. First line of defence against I-threads and malicious Java code is Mozilla Firefox with the NoScript extension. This extension can block malicious Java script from generating i- frames.

I installed the “Mozilla No script extension” which is free but I used another tool which they recommended to scan my system and check how many vulnerabilities there were on my system. As there were over eighty vulnerable areas on my PC, where a hacker could insert malicious Java code, I bought the software and installed the protection. There are a lot of registry cleaners on the market. Some are spyware and others will work for a while then crash. PCRescue is the best one that I have tried and I strongly recommend anybody who is not very technical to use it. I am not an affiliate who earns from the program. It has been a salvation to me. It is a tool which I advise anybody who spends a lot of time on the web to buy. PCRescue v4.0

Multi Level Marketing (MLM) raises its ugly head again and again. It can make a return in a variety of guises. Does it work? You bet is does. SOMETIMES. My first encounter with (MLM, matrix programs, chain letters or whatever you like to call it), was when I was incarcerated in a fashionable girl’s boarding school, which had an uncanny resemblance to StTrinians. All the girls in my class handed over half their term’s pocket money to Matron so that she could dole it out for things like stamps, toothpaste, sanitary towels or money for the church collection. Matron was no fool, she was well aware that we hid the rest of it to use as the school term’s betting money. She did not look for any girl’s betting money unless they broke a school rule that she was determined to enforce. If she wanted to confiscate somebody’s betting money until the end of term, she found it. It was usually wrapped up in that girl’s dirty underwear of a dirty handkerchief and stuffed in a dirty laundry bag!

Matron and most of our parents did not care if we spent a our pocket money on the horses. It was an era when there were no betting shops. It was also a time when postal and telephone betting was deemed a vital part of the post war “Enterprise Culture.” Most of our parents had an account with a local bookmaker and sent in postal bets on a variety of sporting events. Matron laid down the rules of the game. She insisted that we must not gamble with money, that we could afford to loose. Nobody was allowed to issue IOUs. She taught us to hedge our bets. She also taught us some of the moral principals. She warned us that most of us would loose our money and insisted that we bore that misfortune with the traditional British “stiff upper lip.” Nobody got any sympathy if they bellyached about their losses. The rule was “There is no point crying over spilt milk.” If any of us backed a winner, Matron paid us in full within a few hours. Matron was a very competent program manager.

We all made “money” on one MLM program. In the early 1950’s almost every girl and woman longed for the opportunity to wear some of the new nylon stockings. Matron discovered a “matrix program.” There was a scheme, where we were invited to buy a coupon, which cost a big chunk of our term’s betting money. We had to send the coupon to the first name on the list and we had to write sales promotion letters to the other names on the list telling them why they must work hard to promote the scheme. When the first of us started getting our coupons in, we wrote to the names on the list again and told them that the coupons were arriving almost every day. We wrote to them again to say, that some girls had had their coupons redeemed and they were wearing their nylons. We wrote to all members of our “downline” five or six times during that term. We wrote to all our friends telling them not to believe any parents or other adults who said it was a swindle, as we had positive proof that the scheme was working. It was hard work but I went home at the end of that term with enough pairs of nylons to share with my mother and my sister. They both asked for an invitation to get on one of my friends’ lists. They both signed up and sent the coupon to the first name on the list but when they discovered how much time and effort it took to get more people into the program they lost interest and the program started to fold.

Moral of this story. How did Matron know how to run an MLM scheme which was a large Ponzi? She must have been nearing retirement age, when I was at school and she was probably born in the late 1890's. These programs are not new. They are an online version of ponzis that have been around for donkey’s years. If you are going to make a success of any type of matrix program, you need a product which is in high demand. You need to work to promote the program. You need to write your own sales letters. Do not be fooled into the belief that mass produced sales letters sent to, what the promoters call, a massive optin list is going to be much use. The only e-mail lists that are of any real value are the ones which you build yourself. The promotional web pages which the program managers provide for their members, are unlikely to attract any interest if you only advertise it on networks where there are hundreds or thousands of replicas. Use a bit of common sense and you could find one or two suitable matrix programs.

1) The elementary ponzi programs. These offer no products, just an opportunity to get in quickly and get your money out before the system collapses. Immoral? People of all ages bet on some things! If you know how to play the Internet matrix game, you probably have more chance of winning than you have on the slot machines, online casinos, raffles or lotteries. I do not touch any of them. I do not have the skills to do mass mailings or time to spare on downline builders, which involve signing up for programs which I have not selected for myself. I do not want to learn how to market these types of products and services. If I was asked to pontificate about the morals of these programs, I would say that “kids of all ages” bet and that betting on the horses is probably the best form of good clean fun.

2) Matrix programs with a marketable product. If you know something about alternative health products, aids for beauty, webmaster tools, surf programs, investment opportunities or computer security, you will find quite a few matrix programs from which you can make an intelligent choice. I like the new program which has been introduced by the promoters of the 7DollarsMagic ponzi, which is still going strong. It only costs $9.50 to join their new I-Retire-Early program, which is hosted on the same servers as 7dollarsMagic. It is a matrix program for people with only a basic knowledge of Internet marketing, which could generate a realistic income stream. The product which the new I-Retire-Early program offers is a free WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) web page, on which you can promote your own money making programs. Please take a look at

You can create a web page like this and advertise the link on your signature files in the moneymaking users forums. You can advertise it on any traffic exchange and be sure that nobody can replicate it. You can advertise it as a simple webmaster tool for anybody who wants to design their first web site. The product is not likely to decline in popularity. New people are coming on to The Internet every day and they need to learn how to create simple web sites on which they can promote any business opportunity. To get a page like this for yourself, please join the

3) An Advanced Concept. A matrix program for intelligent thinking people, who wish to work with programs which are more suited to the twenty first Century. The world wide web is an evolving system. The Network have developed a “wheels within wheels” model where each of the cogs in the wheel, is an embryo waiting to be released as a new product each time you cycle in the The Matrix Reloaded. It is an evolving system which needs to be evaluated from many different perspectives. It is extremely difficult to explain the way that these matrices within a matrix are going to develop. Find out for yourself! Join the Matrix Unloaded forum users group and follow the unveiling of a program that shows all the signs of being the best business opportunity to be unleashed in 2007. People are reacting as you would expect in a situation like this. 50% of the members do not like change and want to see the old tried and tested models reinstalled. 50% of the members welcome change and can not wait for the changes to come into force. The Matrix is being re scripted now that the members have aired their views. It is expected to be launched between nth and 22nd of December. Decide if you wish to become a member of the Matrix Reloaded and follow the users reaction to each new matrix as it gets unveiled. Take a look at the existing business model and think about the natural progression of the program. I consider it to be the most intelligent and exciting project that I have seen on the Internet in 2006.

There have been a multiplicity of polls on this matter but the results seem to be overwhelming. They want an opportunity to earn a full or part time income from this new media. Many are asking for the earth or the moon.
What is realistic? I have tried to answer some of these questions in one of my web pages.

I am not aware of any way for people who do not have a web site of their own to make any serious money other than in the paid to surf programs or tried and tested HYIPs. People avoid these because they know that they are high risk. The Internet is an evolving system like the weather. If you invest $100 to $1,000 in plants for your garden, you may have a spectacular display in twenty years time or you could loose the lot to freak weather conditions. Does that put you off trying to make a garden and add value to your property? Think of your Internet venture in the same way. You have to start somewhere. Hedge your bets. Build a portfolio with new and old varieties. Have some that offer quick returns and others that are designed for longevity. You will loose on a few. Make hay while the sun shines and do not cry over spilt milk!

My best income earners are both owned by Xllentops. This is a business which has been developing e-currency solutions since 1999. They have achieved what would have been deemed as the impossible at the beginning of 2006. XLOAutosurf has paid me daily from May 4th and I have very realistic hopes that it will survive another year You can test that one by starting with as little as $5 and they add a further $5 to all new accounts . XLO Autosurf. The Finer Things is a HYIP program with a guarantee of survival until August 2007. Test that one with a minimum deposit of $25 and you need do nothing but wait for 30 days before you get an e-mail to tell you that $45 has been deposited in your e-gold account. I did my first deposit in August 2006 and I have twelve running now. I intend to have one which matures each next month. Give this one a go. It involves no hard work. Just deposit your funds and wait for the investment to mature.