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it's MTN 3.5G. the speed could be fascinating when it's stable, but like everybody is experiencing now, connection keeps breaking.

decided to give linuxmint a try.

mtn wan injure me o!

What's MTN up to now? People are begining to complain about this download disconnection. Hmmmm MTN.

I was just about to upgrade to ubuntu 9.04 when my starcomms subcription expired.

i'm in owerri now. 1X is avaible ony. but seems more stable than the EVDo in PH these days. well i'm not doing any download now, web pages seems to load fast enough, and uploading email attachments is quick too. this 1X is not that bad.

funny thread indeed.

Nokia: We Don't Know Why Criminals Want Our Old Phones

The mystery why cybercriminals want a discontinued Nokia phone isn't getting any clearer.

Hackers have been offering up to €25,000 (US$32,413) in undergrounds forums for Nokia 1100 phones made in the company's former factory in Bochum, Germany. The phone can allegedly be hacked so as to facilitate illegal online banking transfers, according to the Dutch company Ultrascan Advanced Global Investigations.

Nokia said on Tuesday it is not aware that resale prices for a phone that retailed for less than €100 when it debuted in 2003 have risen so high. Further, Nokia maintains the phone's software isn't flawed.

"We have not identified any phone software problem that would allow alleged use cases," the company said in an e-mailed statement.

The 1100 can apparently be reprogrammed to use someone else's phone number, which would also let the device receive text messages. That capability opens up an opportunity for online banking fraud.

In countries such as Germany, banks send an mTAN (mobile Transaction Authentication Number) to a person's mobile phone that must be entered into a Web-based form in order to, for example, transfer money into another account. A TAN can only be used once, a security feature known as a one-time passcode.

Criminals have proven adept at obtaining peoples' user names and logins for online bank accounts, either through tricking people into visiting look-alike bank Web sites, through clever e-mail messages or simply hacking PCs.

European banks typically issue customers a list of TANs, but phishers tricked people into revealing those. Deutsche Postbank used to accept any TAN from the list to complete a transaction. Then the bank moved to requesting specific TANs from the list. After continuing fraud, it in 2005 decided to expanded the use of mTANs.

"The mTAN is valid only for the requested transfer and only for a short period," according to the bank's Web site. "It thus has no value for a fraudster."

That is, unless the hacker could also receive the mTAN, which Nokia 1100 hack allegedly allows.

Nokia said it doesn't know of an 1100 software problem that would allow call spoofing. The company said that a phone's SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card -- which holds the device's phone number -- has security mechanisms that are separate from the phone itself.

Nokia said it is aware of commercial services that claim to provide caller identification or phone-number spoofing services, but in those cases the service provider acts as a proxy between the caller and the recipient, Nokia said.

But it is possible to have multiple phones running on a service provider's network that use the same phone number, said Sean Sullivan, a security advisor with the security vendor F-Secure in Finland. Usually, the last phone that used the network will be the one that receives inbound messages, he said.

"So if this particular Nokia 1100 can be modified to spoof the victims phone number, it should be possible to become the primary handset -- at least long enough to receive the TAN," Smith said.

Technical details on how the 1100 is being modified are still unknown, said Frank Engelsman of Ultrascan. However, a woman in Finland contacted his company on Monday after seeing a news story and offered to send her Bochum-made Nokia 1100. When it arrives, the phone will be examined and tested to see if the TAN interception can be replicated, Engelsman said.

Meanwhile, a Dutch technology site, portablegear.nl, wrote that it placed a fake advertisement for the particular Nokia 1100 on an online marketplace. People offered as much as €500, offering to immediately come pick up the device.

Nokia produced more than 200 million devices in the 1100 model family. The company said it doesn't disclosure figures such as how many 1100s were made in Bochum.

culled from pcworld.com

MrCrackles:
When you download too much Indecency and buy cheap computers, you are bound to have a problem like this!

Toyin, stop downloading porn, stop it!!

no wonder her holy acer refuse to enter the internet, poor thing.

@ hayprof. I know that laptop, and i like it. One of the best machines hp ever made. I need to know the exact configuration. I hope it has 8 cell battery too!

@brian. it's a live cd: you can use it without installing. now i am wondering what you really need the cd for.

stefrank i will buy the hp, but pls furnish me with these details:

processor clock speed: is it 2.0Ghz, 2.1GHZ or 2.4Ghz?
processor name: is it intel core 2duo P8600 or T9400?
processor FSB: 1066Mhz or 800Mhz ?
L2 cache: 6MB or 3MB

graphic controller: is it Intel 4500HD or ATI Mobility Radeon

and lastly;
harddisk rotational speed: 5400rpm or 7200rpm.

Thanks.

@poster. from what i have read about the Auditor linux Security, you can run the cd without installing on your HDD if you know what you want to use the program for in the first place..  if i may ask, how did you come about the cd? there must be some installation guide from where you got it.

stefrank. is this laptop still available?

[quote author=*Toyinrayo link=topic=262970.msg3745723#msg3745723 date=1240012891]What can I do if the computer keeps showing low virtual memory and keeps slowing down?

Do I delete some files, applications etc? [/quote] ( i hope is not another Acer)
[quote author=oyb v1.01 link=topic=262970.msg3746184#msg3746184 date=1240034490]first off, post your specs
also, check the info on this thread -

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-260529.0.html



download , install and run sequoia view

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=sequoiaview&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

this should provide you with a detailed breakdown of what is eating up your hard disk space[/quote]

well, the Iphone is a phenomenal. Nokia profit deeped last year, but it still maintained it's dominant market share. Market analysts say about 2.8million of 5800 was sold last quarter. i believe the figure will keep rising. Nokia's sales model will ensure just that. The phone is not tied to any carrier, its affordable(its been dubbed the poor man Iphone, lol), nokia has a large customer base in emerging markets(India, China, Brasil, Nigeria, Philipines etc).  etc etc
N97 will be a success when launched, even in North America. Sales of phones with QWERTY keyboard is very strong in the US and LG holds the market there where it success as a phone vendor hinges on the continued sales of this type of models.(American just discovered that phones can send text and email, lol). So that's nokia's main competition. Believe me, no LG model is better than the soon to be released N97.

puskin:
@flyuche
Y won't they gv us fones wit torchlight, wen they knw we don't hv lite in dìs f**kin country. Now d poster is talkin abt maps. Wen they r makin d maps, they(nokia) shud rmbr 2include d potholes 2avoid.

i no fit laugh.

Ex Inferis:
why would Nokia bother?

so you naijans are[b] heavy buyers of Nokia's torchlight and FM phones[/b], is that incentive enough to waste time and resources mapping a vast terrain

my brother those torchlights are handy sometimes.

@poster. www.netbks.com
when you get there, just type linux in the search box, you will be surprised the amount of quality free ebooks available.
you might wanna get get[b] jzip[/b] to unzip the files.

brianromel:
I've burnt the iso file into a cd and can boot from the cd,my problem is installing the os on my harddrive.
Unlike windows,it has no place that says install to harddrive.i have created a partition for it also,i just need to know how to install it to that partition as it does not run like windows when installing from a bootable xp installation cd.

i think it is a good idea to out with a linux distro like Ubuntu. installation is as easy as ABC.

@lynx. is that MTN?

[quote author=uncle_sege link=topic=110704.msg3739431#msg3739431 date=1239907738]Hi texazzpete

thanks for your tip[b], but the file as expired on the site[/b]

could you please upload the files again, thanks.[/quote]

i am out of here.

i was wondering why my speed has improved lately. did not know hayprof has been off the network.

@ dual core. With this your disclaimer are you sure the guy would go ahead with your advice, lol .It's always a comic relief to read your replies.

Touchscreen phones have always been there.  The Iphone is the only such phone that  gained  unprecedented popularity thus resurrecting the appeal of touchscreens. Nokia  did not set out to produce an "Iphone  killer". Touch is in, touch is the trend; it just wanted touchscreen models in its portfolio. 5800 was infact  not intended to be a  high-end model. It's a cheap mid-tier phone for those who wants to  touch and feel touched. And by the end of the third quarter of this year it would have sold more units than Apple's Iphone since launch.

I hate it when people make blank generalisation. " This is crap, that is crap" kind of talk. It would be reasonable to state your own experience. All machines are susceptible to faults , hardware or software. Satellites and spacecrafts that are built with the highest technological process fail sometimes not to talk of laptops. Go to computer repair shops, you find all sort of brands eg apple, hp, dell, lenovo begging for attention. I don't stick to any brand, i buy what appeals to me preferentially business class laptops. Point is, when you have issues with your pc deal with it. I have used compaqs, acers, lenovos, hps, dells and a few unpopular brands. Well yet to try an apple.

It would be nice to see your personalised desktop screenshots, apple fans.

[quote author=George_D link=topic=171330.msg3734730#msg3734730 date=1239829283]this 'rubbish' was posted from a DV5 hp laptop. thank you mr 'ácer'. i hope you cling on to
your compromised crap [/quote]so na one of these cheap plastic hp pavillion you borrow come here de make noise.

i hope say them neva thief nitel sat3 cable like them thief nigcomsat satellite for space

[quote author=George_D link=topic=171330.msg3733134#msg3733134 date=1239810564]Are you sure those are original HPs?[/quote]do you even own a laptop? stop posting rubbish about acers

no fans here. just mac owners