TreasureTrooper, TopGunTraffic, MrTenPercent and viruses/spyware, ClixSense

Received a check from Treasure Trooper today. I've been slacking off on this as most of the free offers are hard to get credit for. I think I'll start looking at some of the higher paid offers when I get a chance.

Surprisingly enough, TopGunTraffic was back up this morning. I was able to login and surf. No communication from admin though & the forum wouldn't come up, so don't know what's going on with it.

Apparently the hacker last week at MrTenPercent did much more damage than originally thought. Apparently the hacker left the trojan which wipes out your egold when you login. Admin are trying to figure out how to fix things, so looks like this site has been killed.
Admin advises anyone who has logged into MrTenPercent in the past week, to check for spyware and viruses. This morning I checked for spyware and sure enough I had some. I'm in the middle of a virus check now and yes I have viruses. Fortunately I don't use Internet Explorer to login into egold.
So #1, never use Internet Explorer to login into egold.
#2, at least once a week, do a spyware and virus scan.
If you don't have spyware or virus software installed, go to download.com for free software.
AVG has free spyware and free virus software, both of which I used today, both of which found problems.
While you're at download.com , you might as well, check out the free firewalls. I currently use McAfee, only because it came on my system. I used to use ZoneAlarm though. That worked just fine. Not sure if a free version is still available though.

TrickleDownCash is still working on switching servers and should be done by Monday. I've been able to surf the past few days without any problem.

Here's the lastest from ClixSense:

This is a quick reminder that the end of the month is nearing. After the end of the month ClixSense.com processes your earnings check which will be mailed on or before the 10th of April (provided minimum payment status has been met). Please log into your ClixSense account and be sure that the "Make check Payable to" field is correct. The name in that field should be your own first and last name. This field contains the information which will be imprinted on your monthly earnings check.

Got anything you want to sell, or a website you want seen?
At any given minute of every day ClixSense.com has hundreds of users logged into their accounts eargerly awaiting the opportunity to view your advertisement. On average, ClixSense.com serves over 2,000 advertisements to our members hourly. With ClixSense.com you can set your own advertising budget and the results are fantastic. List your web site, auction listing, or just about anything you want to drive Internet traffic to. ClixSense.com has revolutionized Internet advertising.

Internet Marketers are raving over ClixSense.com. See what all the rave is about, try your ad on ClixSense.com today!

Referral Program: Through the month of March you are paid $5 when any of your referrals upgrade their membership from Free to Premium status. You also will receive 10% of the ClixSense revenue collected when your referral advertises on ClixSense.com. You will receive the 10% revenue earnings for the life of your referrals account. The $5 upgrade bonus is scheduled to end at midnight CST on March 31st. Management reserves the right to extend the $5 bonus upgrade program.


Site is free to join, so it's worth a try. Free members cash out at $10. Lots of PTC's, most of which are worth at least 1 cent and above.

New forum, 9PlanetNoSurf, MySpace

Another new forum has launched. This one is run by jude at No Bullshit HYIP Blog.

John of 9PlanetNoSurf has miraculously found $43K in a spare egold account, so will resume refunds. Strange how someone can forget about that much money, but whatever.

Here is the link to Drunkonlife's new site.

MySpace has improved their photo section. You can now create albums and set it so it is viewable by you, friends only or everyone. I'm really excited about letting friends only view photos. I emailed MySpace several times a few months ago. The first time I asked whether this was possible, the second time I suggested they add this feature. I have photos of my son I'd like to share with my out of state relatives, but I don't want just anybody looking at them, so I'm really excited I can do what I want now. I had no idea MySpace was so popular in my area. I can't believe there are actually people I know on it. I can see it's definitely popular for marketing, not just internet marketers, but real world businesses too. I've found area bars, area musicians. I live in a small town so it's really interesting. Everyone is getting high tech.

9PlanetNoSurf, Google Adsense Arbitrage

Apparently 9PlanetNoSurf only has $500 left in the refund pot, with more refunds to do. He's planning on shutting down the site and doing refunds out of pocket over the next 6+ months as he gets the money.

Stick to what you know. Move on, when you know something new, rather than move on when you're still learning something new.

The traffic exchange StormSurfTraffic is celebrating it's 3 year anniversary. Upgrade packages have been reduced to $2 rather than the usual $5 for a limited time.

Paipal's blog has a post on adsense arbitrage, which is where a site is set up containing only adsense ads and no content. When a link is clicked you're taken to another site containing only adsense ads. This leads to a neverending loop of sites with no content, only ads. I know I've ended up in these loops before when searching for something. Well, apparently google finally caught on and there is now a new adsense arbitrage strategy approved by google.
Related to that, just thought I'd share a link I received on adsense arbitrage today. Check it out if interested.
BTW, google adsense is another free, legitimate, passive way to make money online. Set up a site or blog, sign up for an adsense account and add the addsense code to your site. One tip is to add the adsense links to the top and top right of your site. As people click on the adsense links, you get credit. That's the simple strategy. I haven't gotten into it much yet, but some keywords pay higher than others, so they are the ones you want to target. When I get time, I will look into it a bit deeper.
BTW, if your site contains google adsense, it can't be used for autosurfing.

TrickleDownCash

TrickleDownCash is still in the midst of changing servers. Apparently they have ran into a few technical problems which should be resolved in the next day or so. Days missed surfing will be credited and a bonus day will be coming up.

BTW, I don't know why my post titles are being doubled. Strange. I'll have to look into it when I get time.
At the moment I'm in the midst of converting a library from C to C++, which needs to be completed within an unreasonable time frame, probably set by a management person with no clue about software. sorry, just a short rant.lol

TopGunTraffic, TrickleDownCash, 17SurfPro, MrTenPercent

Well, it looks like I should have gotten out of TopGunTraffic after my last payment. The site is no longer coming up and there has been no communication from the admin. Oh well, at least I only lost $1.

TrickleDownCash is moving to it's new server today, so there may be some downtime. This site and 17SurfPro are about the only recommended sites at the moment. MrTenPercent is also a good bet, but I advise caution due to the recent hacking. They seem to have pulled through it ok though.

MrTenPercent

The latest from MrTenPercent:

18 Mar. We had some DDOS attack last night but have stopped it.


Don't ask me HOW we stopped it, getting that technical is beyond me and I leave that to the techies.


If you experienced any down time this is why.


Negotiations with an INC company have broken down
(not enough safe guards in place to protect the members and we are not about to abandon our loyal members). The
only reason this was considered in the first place is that WE were approached by the INC company. We were not LOOKING
to sell but wanted to see what the offer consisted of. NOW we know what we are worth, a high five figure sum!!!


Things are back to normal and we move on.


E-gold is still VERY slow at times and sometimes we cannot connect at all. When we do get in we bang out a load of pay outs and sometimes have to catch up on the paperwork later (adjusting members balances etc.) so if you get a payout and find your account is wrong do not panic as this will be adjusted within a few hours max.


EVERTHING is done MANUALLY as we do not trust autopayout scripts. We check your earnings, your surfings, our E-Gold account history to make sure you did pay us, your E-gold account number etc., etc. It all takes some time and THEN we have to pay you and make all the necessary adjustments to accounts. This is to ensure that there is no attempt at cheating (believe me some members try everything even paying us in YEN!)


More news later.


Tony
mrtenpercent.com


This is the following message on the site's front page:

Hacked by BRAIN.


If you are the admin contact

YOU KNOW WHO!

YOU WERE WARNED I WOULD GET IN!

YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT SO JUST PAY IT



and the login boxes are missing, login link doesn't work either, so it doesn't look like things are under control yet.


Update: MrTenPercent is back to normal. You can now login and surf.

MrTenPercent

The latest from MrTenPercent:

18 Mar. We had some DDOS attack last night but have stopped it.


Don't ask me HOW we stopped it, getting that technical is beyond me and I leave that to the techies.


If you experienced any down time this is why.


Negotiations with an INC company have broken down
(not enough safe guards in place to protect the members and we are not about to abandon our loyal members). The
only reason this was considered in the first place is that WE were approached by the INC company. We were not LOOKING
to sell but wanted to see what the offer consisted of. NOW we know what we are worth, a high five figure sum!!!


Things are back to normal and we move on.


E-gold is still VERY slow at times and sometimes we cannot connect at all. When we do get in we bang out a load of pay outs and sometimes have to catch up on the paperwork later (adjusting members balances etc.) so if you get a payout and find your account is wrong do not panic as this will be adjusted within a few hours max.


EVERTHING is done MANUALLY as we do not trust autopayout scripts. We check your earnings, your surfings, our E-Gold account history to make sure you did pay us, your E-gold account number etc., etc. It all takes some time and THEN we have to pay you and make all the necessary adjustments to accounts. This is to ensure that there is no attempt at cheating (believe me some members try everything even paying us in YEN!)


More news later.


Tony
mrtenpercent.com


This is the following message on the site's front page:

Hacked by BRAIN.


If you are the admin contact

YOU KNOW WHO!

YOU WERE WARNED I WOULD GET IN!

YOU KNOW WHAT I WANT SO JUST PAY IT



and the login boxes are missing, login link doesn't work either, so it doesn't look like things are under control yet.