New Paypal phishing?

I got a new email that purports to be from PayPal on a payment for a class action lawsuit. This is a good trick as I don't have a PayPal account. I am forwarding the email to PayPal and let them figure out if it is a phishing attempt. Why do I think it is a phishing attempt?

1. I don't have a Paypal account.
2. It asks for bank account information.
3. The link does not resolve to PayPal, but, to another website.
4. None of the links in the email resolve to PayPal.

Confirmed, Paypal sent me an email that this is a phishing attempt. If you receive something similar to the image above forward it to spoof@paypal.com so they can shut down the phishing site(s) in the clickable links.

Spamming Blog

Well it finally happened. My blog got a commercial spam comment. Not even related to Linux which wouldn't upset me much if he/she was also a Linux enthusiast. The person has a commercial site selling CD's on a product which I won't name (Not porn). I enable the new option (word verification) for submitting comments. That at least will make it harder for 'bots' to spam and force an actual person to submit the word verification before putting up their spam.

My Desktop

I know it is boring, but, you can see what my desktop looks like.

For those of you who are still running Windows it looks close to what you are running. The desktop is called KDE and if you are able to work in Windows you can easily navigate this (or Gnome, XFCE, etc). At the bottom kicker is running, this is your Start menu and task bar. If you look towards the right side of the bottom you will see 1, 2, 3, 4. These are the virtual desktops. I setup for just 4. This allows me to organize my screens in whatever fashion I want. When I start my heavy duty work I can have the browser & email on one desktop, music playing on another, the P2P program on the third and the CD burner running on 4. It makes it much easier for me to work.

When you look at the right hand side you will see an application called GKRELLM. This allows me to monitor how the system is running and what applications are taking up the CPU. It also has realtime weather monitor along with other toys.