Tweetdeck for Android beta is running now and like all beta software there are some things missing we like to see in the software.

To my surprise there was nothing like a wish list, so I created one on the support forum of Tweetdeck

You can find it here:   Tweetdeck for Android wish list

Some of us have the Twitter lists now and of course, now people want to be on “your” list.

This cartoon is about the Twitter lists

Everyone of you knows this..- “Trust, but verify!” – but only a few of you follow this golden rule.

I follow a couple (of hundred) of people on Twitter and on Saturday night I did see this Tweet:

So… I clicked on the link and…   WTF??  I got this window popping up

Sure… NOT!

This is a classic case of malware 

Why? An Ethiopian goverment site would never ever link to some commercial site to check “your” computer.

Now we are going to investigate this. I changed browser – I was so lazy to use Google’s Chrome because it is fast (but insecure!) – to Firefox because it’s has some nice (security) plug ins

I visited the url again and this is what I got

URL moved? Hmm   let me check that..

Linked to sellbit.cn   Hey? A clue! Let me (temporarily) allow this to happen…

Look! A link to… traflab.cn  Hmm we will follow this one too..

Another one! A link to whale-tale.cn this time..   Again we will follow this one to see where we get..

WATCH IT!!  NOSCRIPT is blocking all this and as you can see, again we are linked to some other site. This time it’s 009antivirus.com and they try to run a program

Who and/or what is 009antivirus.com?   We check this and see the following info

Hmmm Created 2009-10-28 ??   Just 3 days ago!

We could e-mail Mr Foi M Summer and ask him to explain all this, because it is weird that a link to his site is placed on an Ethiopian goverment site.

But.. we don’t have to…  malwareurl.com has some nice info about 009antivirus.com and what do we see?

009antivirus.com is a well know malware site!!

I will not contact him.

What I will do is publish all this info, to share this with you. So you can see that even trustworthy links can be bad.

And… of course… contact the webmaster of http://www.addisababacity.gov.et

and… remember…  “Trust, but verify!”

Yay!  There is a new TweetDeck 

v0.26.4 includes the following fixes:

• * Friend-lists over 100 people weren’t being properly loaded into TD.
• * There was a bug in syncing where large groups could potentially get mangled if they were synced and changed, within a suitable large timeframe, between multiple computers. This had to do with not having a chance to load a complete friend list for the group in question and then syncing only a subset of the actual group. This problem was especially magnified by the first problem.
• * There was a minor bug where following someone you already followed would create two entries of the person in your friend list.
• * The compiled binary has been reduced to nearly half the size of 26.3.

v0.26.3 includes the following fixes:

• * Fix for twitter account holders with whitelisted accounts TweetDeck used to refuse to load and/or consume a lot of CPU when idle.
• * Sync fixes when adding people to groups

v0.26.2 includes the following fix:

• * Fix for "in reply to…"

v0.26.1 includes the following fix:

• * Fix for Mentions column not updating.

v0.26 includes the following features over v0.25:

• * Support for multiple accounts and unlimited columns.
• * Sync your group and search columns between computers and your iphone.
• * A new ‘Block and report’ spam button.
• * A new ‘Reply all’ feature – tweet to everyone mentioned in a specific tweet.
• * A new ‘TweetDeck Recommends’ column.
• * Improved video playback support.
• * A new Auto-suggest filter when creating groups.
• * YFrog integration.
• * Support for RE (in reference to) when tweeting.