There is a virus making it’s way through Facebook using the built-in messaging system. The message points you to a video which informs you that you need to upgrade your flash player and prompts you to download a file. This file is NOT a flash update but a virus that, once installed, will try to grab sensitive data off your PC like credit card numbers.

The virus watchdog blog for McAfee labs reports that Facebook is aware of the Koobface attack and is already working to remove the spammed links from its system. But with dozens of Koobface variants known to exist, McAfee warns that “the situation is likely to get worse before it gets better.”

via: http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/12/koobface-virus.html

Up From Last October Down From Last October

Overall Web Site Facts

• We had over 36,200 visits
• We had an average of 1170 visits per day with our highest day (20th) having 1600 visits
• We had 640,200 pages viewed by those visitors
• Visitors came from 127 different countries covering most continents
• The top 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) hit our web site to index our pages over 98,000 times
• 3.7% of our traffic came directly from search engines with Google alone accounting for over 13,000 hits

University College Future Student Micro-Site Facts

• We had about 2,500 visits
• We had an average of 79.97 visits per day
• We had 9,974 pages viewed by those visitors
• Visitors came from 71 different countries covering most continents
• 60.91% of the visitors were new visits
• Visitors used 6 different operating systems ranging from Windows and Mac to the iPhone and iPod Touch
• 60 people completed an inquiry form online
• 21 people registered for campus visits online

Seminary Future Student Micro-Site Facts

• We had about 1,600 visits
• We had an average of 49.90 visits per day
• We had 5,201 pages viewed by those visitors
• Visitors came from 59 different countries covering most continents
• 56.17% of the visitors were new visits
• 30 people completed an inquiry form online
• 20 people registered for campus visits online

Compiled November 5, 2008 by Andrew Smith, Admissions and Marketing

Well it is April – yup the first day. My Son celebrates this day as his “half” birthday – everyone else just tries to play jokes on each other.

Well when I got in this morning my office floor was completely filled with “Women Alive” magazines. Some were in my drawers and even a few in my fridge… Kevin was kind enough to distribute them everywhere he could find space. My other office mate – “crazy” Elizabeth was more than willing to participate in this – her first ever – April fools joke.

Well I thought I would turn it around on them so I cleaned it up real quick and then acted like nothing happened. They were fooled alright and spilled the beans as to who did what. After a while I let them in on the fact that it all happened the way they planned – it was nice to see the squirm a bit first though

Overall Web Site Facts

• We had over 37,000 visits
• We had an average of 1199 visits per day with our highest day (18th) having 1546 visits
• We had 310,850 pages viewed by those visitors
• Visitors came from 108 different countries covering every continent
• The top 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) hit our web site to index our pages over 49,000 times
• 7.1% of our traffic came directly from search engines with Google alone accounting for almost 10,000 hits

University College Future Student Micro-Site Facts

• We had over 2,900 visits
• We had an average of 93.61 visits per day
• We had 13,288 pages viewed by those visitors
• Visitors came from 67 different countries covering every continent
• 71.81% of the visitors were new visits
• Visitors used 6 different operating systems ranging from Windows and Mac to Nintendo Wii (gaming system)
• 97 people completed an inquiry form online
• 37 people registered for campus visits online

Seminary Future Student Micro-Site Facts

• We had about 1,800 visits
• We had an average of 58.03 visits per day
• We had 5,519 pages viewed by those visitors
• Visitors came from 63 different countries covering every continent
• 71.26% of the visitors were new visits
• 36 people completed an inquiry form online
• 29 people registered for campus visits online

Today some of Tyndale’s online resources were mentioned in a blog post here. Ben is a popular blogger – his post will give great exposure to Tyndale!