Hangin’ On By a Thread

Posted on August 5th, 2008 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Fantasia, News, Pharrell

Posted by Bossip Staff

Fantasia is struggling to stay relevant in the September 2008 issue of Sister 2 Sister Magazine. Despite her denial, it’s never a good sign when your management company drops that ass. Also featured in print is Pharrell. Peep his Fashion Rocks spread below.

  • Dana Dane

    1st

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  • http://en.gravatar.com/avatar/e084de98d1f3d8ab064d94a7476117fd?s=80&r=any WyzePro http://myspace.wyfy.com

    She looks good in this pic…..

  • Dame

    Tasia can sang really sang but she gets no love her last cd was off the hook

  • Mandah! u aint said nuthin…

    Lawd that reminds me… that foo’ pookie still has my daggone fantasia cd! the second one too, with when i c u!!! ooooh im mad!!!

  • I’m Just Me- Bucky Baby’s, Hoovy Baby’s and Josh Allen’s #1 STAN!!!! OH…and Kanye can soooo get it too :)

    Well I like her music and will support anything she puts out. She stayed around a lot longer than some of those other AI winners (Ruben for example). Times change, as does music’s sound, I think she will find her niche yet again.

  • who knows

    At least she is on this cover without that terrible red hair she had. They may have given her the fashion consult that she despartly needed.

  • Ermy Erm (Tornados hit the Chi last night!! I woke up in the dark!)

    Lub me some Fantasia…hey girl I had voted for u on AI. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! u can sannnnnngs

    HEY WYZE!!

  • who knows

    ** Desperately

  • Pretty N’ Yellow

    Okay, so why did Fantasia get dropped from her management company?

  • Just Sayin

    Doe’s anybody know who the portrait is on her right forearm?

  • LdyK

    Thank god that awful hair is all black. I like fanny…she just needs to tone her ass down and stick with Miss Oprah. She’ll do just fine.

  • num1dominicano

    she looks good in this pic…..which is a rarity for her…

  • Tired

    Nice pic I like her hair…

  • http://www.myspace.com/ocky_j Octavia

    Her album was fire. Great cover shot, too. She should stick with that look.

  • http://aol ebonieladi

    Fantastic Just Needs A Good Management Team. The Girl Has Mad TALENT. It Just Seems That Her People Don’t Know What To Do With It. She Was By Far One Of The Most Talented Winners Of American Idol. Someone Needs To Take Her Under Their Wing, Polish Up Her Image And Write Her Some New Material. Fantasia Has The Ability To Stay In the Game A Long Time If This Is Done.

  • hmmm

    fantasia looks nice, not over done with all the colors

  • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1725bc00dc07284d3f4ebe5fc0ec6a26?s=80&r=any NIKKI UNDERWOOD ESQ. says:(No PROBATION for the kid nor did she get shot at JD’s white party)

    Flo Rida corny ass ate Gerbils and other small rodents fa survival…

  • http://en.gravatar.com/avatar/e084de98d1f3d8ab064d94a7476117fd?s=80&r=any WyzePro http://myspace.wyfy.com

    Erm…how are you today

  • http://www.myspace.com/thegameoncw Bird

    Fantasia blew it. That ghetto persona she is so attached to is not palatable to AI fans. It’s one thing to be dropped by your label, but when your management drops you it’s a wrap.

  • Ms_ButtaflyynDC

    Tasia looks good in this pic for a change. I love that hair do on her. She is very slept on and under estimated. I guess that’s what happens when you become s star from American idol. Both of her CD’s were off the hook!

  • Ms_ButtaflyynDC

    @ ebonieladi….

    I agree with you 100%. I don’t know why it is hard for her to drop that whole ghetto image. I mean at least know when to turn it on and off. Like Keyshia Cole, she still has a long way to go but she has come a long way.

  • ThatGirlLinda

    Fantasia’s music is good. I am not a fan of her ghetto image that sucks and I may not purchase her music anymore if she can’t switch it up.

  • BIANCA

    I love you Fantasia!!!

  • BIANCA

    Wow you all are ridiculous. Let her be herself. Nobody has to change for you suckas.

  • k.k

    she’s sooo gone!!one of idols that aren’t even in the picture!such a shame!!she needs to reinvent herself..and kick young dro to the curb!!

  • flawda

    Chick can sing but, she aint attractive for one and she needs to stop acting like a chicken with her head cut off on stage. Did i mention how unattractive she is.

  • http://malone_latisha@hotmail.com Lovely

    I LOVE FANTASIA, BUT SHE DOES NEED BETTER MANAGEMENT, BOTH OF THIS GIRLS ALBUM WERE OFF THE HOOK, SHE SHOULD HAVE SHOT STRAIGHT TO THE TOP, AND I DON’T GIVE A DAMN WHAT NOBODY SAYS, NOBODY IS SINGING LIKE HER RIGHT NOW, THE GIRL IS BLOWING LIKE A BULL HORN, OUT THE GATE. YOU CAN ONLY CONTRIBUTE THAT TO BAD MANAGEMENT, AND UNDER-RATED PROMOTION. THAT’S A SHAME, BECAUSE SHE IS JUST TOO TALENTED.

  • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1725bc00dc07284d3f4ebe5fc0ec6a26?s=80&r=any NIKKI UNDERWOOD ESQ. says:(No PROBATION for the kid nor did she get shot at JD’s white party)

    Erm!! Whats shakin’?

  • Moreaces

    Keep your head up girl,, Go forward and dont look back

  • realwoman

    No she needs to KEEP her handsome black man and be true to herself. Just like rappers or rockers don’t change their persona for bourgoise paper bag testing blacks or blue blood uppercrust whites she needs to focus her energy on being FANTASIA and keep making her true fans (people who buy her music for her singing skills and touching messages) happy. Later for all that fake stuff.

  • Aunt Viv

    This is the best I’ve seen her look in a long time. Poor ‘Tasia-I hope you saved and invested your chips wisely…

  • http://lovingmeans@aol.com 1TruDiva w/The PlatinumVocals has FINALLY found her cyberfriend NIKKI!!!!!

    Hi NIKKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I’ve missed you!!!!

    And Suga!

    I had some purple nowmaladers and some ring pops and some skrawberry pop tarts and some jujubeans and some sour balls (apple) and some corn chips and a beef pattie with cocoa bread but when you didn’t come…….

    .

    .

    .

    .

    I ate it!!!!

  • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1725bc00dc07284d3f4ebe5fc0ec6a26?s=80&r=any NIKKI UNDERWOOD ESQ. says:(No PROBATION for the kid nor did she get shot at JD’s white party)

    1TruDiva w/The PlatinumVocals

    DAM-in-it….you already KNOW NU gotta a suga foot and touf….not one ring pop? You couldnt save ONE RING POP!!! ?!!?! ;)

  • http://lovingmeans@aol.com 1TruDiva w/The PlatinumVocals has FINALLY found her cyberfriend NIKKI!!!!!

    OK—To the topic I go…….

    Tasia. Tasia. Tasia!

    I honestly think she got the short end of the stick and not necessarily by design. Her management team tried to use her “hoodness” to target a specific market and it backfired.

    Fantasia has a powerful voice (much like myself) lol!) that would most likely be more appreciated in Gospel.

    It’s really sad that the industry relies on lots of sex and little talent to sell.

    SOMEONE missed the mark with this talented young lady!!!!

  • http://aol ebonieladi

    It’s Not About Her Changing Her True Self. She Can Still Be Tasia, She Just Needs A Little Smoothing Out. Most People Have A Public Face And A Private Face. She Needs To Be Able To Have More Doors Opened To Her So She Can Reach That Next Level Where She Deserves To Be. Do You Think Beyonce Was Always That Smooth? And She Can’t Touch Tasia

    Vocally. Tasia Has It In Her She Just Needs A Little Help. Do Y’all Remember The Skit On The Dave Chappelle Show, “When Keeping It Real Backfires”? The Same Can Happen To Her Any Many Other Artists Who Deserve To Be Much Bigger Than Some Of Their Less Talented Competition. You Can Keep It Real To An Extent But You Also Have To Be Smart As Far As Your Career Goes. Look At Queen Latifah, Will Smith, Jay Z And LL Cool J. I Don’t Consider Them Sellouts. And They Still Appeal To And Have Much Respect In the Black Community And Among Their Peers.

  • http://lovingmeans@aol.com 1TruDiva w/The PlatinumVocals has FINALLY found her cyberfriend NIKKI!!!!!

    ***scrounging thru the wrinkled, greasy brown paper bag***

    **jumping up and down**

    Oh snap!!!!

    I found one banana nowmalader and 1/2 of a 1/2 of a skrawberry poptart!!!!

    **handing NIKKI the poptart**

    Here you go! You can have it! Really!

    See….what had happened was…..uhhh…..

  • Official TimeHater

    She lookds good on the cover- nice makeup. I’m not a particular fan of her music, not feeling her vocal style and all but I wish her the best and I’m glad that she found someone who makes her happy.

  • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1725bc00dc07284d3f4ebe5fc0ec6a26?s=80&r=any NIKKI UNDERWOOD ESQ. says:(No PROBATION for the kid nor did she get shot at JD’s white party)

    1TruDiva w/The PlatinumVocals…..

    NU taking the snacks…GREATFUL for the sug…unwrapping the pop tarts and eating them cold.

  • TaShA

    She looks nice on here. I will never understand the hate that some folks have for Fantasia but I’ve always liked her. She can be a bit much at times but the girl is talented and making major moves. I’m ready for the Color Purple movie and for her to come out with some new music. I definitely don’t see her leaving the scene. She’s talented.

  • http://lovingmeans@aol.com 1TruDiva w/The PlatinumVocals has FINALLY found her cyberfriend NIKKI!!!!!

    jjj took the beef pattie and gave it to Rihanna.

    Lauren took the cocoa bread. (Well, I GAVE it to her. You KNOW she’s with child!)

    Aunt Viv took one of the ring pops.

    KZZ took the nowmaladers.

    (TEEDY did too!)

    Just Sayin snatched the bag and ran!!!

    realwoman tried to stop him but he jumped over the monkey bars and hopped the fence.

    RE told all of ‘em to give it back but they didn’t listen.

    I’m sssssssssoooooooooooooo sawwwwwwrrryyyy!!!!

  • CUTIE PIE

    what a messy mess

  • WhodatsaidDat

    Get off tasia, all she gotta do is belt out a bad ballad, and it’s a wrap.

  • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1725bc00dc07284d3f4ebe5fc0ec6a26?s=80&r=any NIKKI UNDERWOOD ESQ. says:(No PROBATION for the kid nor did she get shot at JD’s white party)

    1 TRU…..

    Its cool..before work tomorrow Ill cop from the Penny Candy Lady and make it RAIN!!!

  • STEFANY

    She looks a mess with all of those trashy ass tatoos.

  • http://lovingmeans@aol.com 1TruDiva w/The PlatinumVocals has FINALLY found her cyberfriend NIKKI!!!!!

    @ just for the record–

    Your rant is really off the mark!!!!

    No one is dissin’ Tasia! At least, I’m not! No one is saying Fantasia should quit!!!!

    There’s obviously some things that should change–either her management team, her camp, her publicist, her stylist, etc.

    I personally feel as if she’s got the short end of the stick! The girl is VERY talented but the industry marketed her ALL WRONG!!!!

    As far as your Idol rant–she had an obligation to them you know–CONTRACT???? They made their money!!

    Neither the industry nor (apparently)her suggested targeted audience is supporting her as WE thought they would.

    The Patti LaBelle’s, Minnie Ripperton’s, Chaka Khan’s and Aretha Franklin’s are just about non existent today. I strongly believe her voice travels in that circuit.

    It’s obvious others don’t feel the same and it’s really sad.

    You don’t have to attack everyone in here.

    Rep ya girl but remember–some of us feel just like you!

  • FANNY FAN

    I also read someplace that she does not read what you all have to say,because she knows the devil is influencing you and it so so negative and she stays away from negative and hateful energy,she said most artist do because it is bad Karma and not creative or a positive flow, and to be creative you must be around good energy.So hate on!!!!!

  • Aleesa

    Forget Fantasia, Pharrell is too cute

  • http://lovingmeans@aol.com 1TruDiva w/The PlatinumVocals has FINALLY found her cyberfriend NIKKI!!!!!

    Please read ebonieladi’s 11:27 am post.

    She summed it up nicely.

  • http://lovingmeans@aol.com 1TruDiva w/The PlatinumVocals has FINALLY found her cyberfriend NIKKI!!!!!

    I’ve learned that–sometimes not so positive opinions can be useful. That is–if you can find a way to make it HELP you.

    The last time I checked, it was called—

    CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM.

    Not hating.

  • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1725bc00dc07284d3f4ebe5fc0ec6a26?s=80&r=any NIKKI UNDERWOOD ESQ. says:(No PROBATION for the kid nor did she get shot at JD’s white party)

    1 TRU…

    My sista you aint neva lied….the term “hater”…is SO DATED…I like to refer to it has ppl holding umbellas when its not raining…

    YOUR SHINE BLOCKIN’….

  • http://lovingmeans@aol.com 1TruDiva w/The PlatinumVocals has FINALLY found her cyberfriend NIKKI!!!!!

    Not meaning to sound mean. However–it would help if their was less shouting (all CAPS) and run on sentences. I can understand a misspelled word here and there but DAMN!!!!!

    Reading really is fundaMENTAL!

  • Monigue

    I read each and every comment and personally I don’t think she has lost any sleep with haters and @1true diva I remember you from last summer too, when all the drama about her being pregnant.

  • http://lovingmeans@aol.com 1TruDiva w/The PlatinumVocals has FINALLY found her cyberfriend NIKKI!!!!!

    I feel you! I don’t automatically blow up when people don’t agree with me. You got me twisted hun!

    What I attack is ignorant ones that internalize and personalize their hate toward me for my OPINION then turn around and attack me.

    We all have our opinions and to be honest–I really try to respect even the ones I don’t agree with.

    If you’ll revisit any Tasia thread–read AND comprehend, then you’d understand. Hell, for that matter–read any of my posts–at least the ones where I manage to stay on topic (Lol!) you’ll see that my attacks are to those that choose to take it there.

    It’s my duty to bring them back!

  • http://malone_latisha@hotmail.com Lovely

    I APRECIATE YOU CLEARING THE AIR, AND I WISH FANTASIA ALL THE BEST, I AM MOST DEFINITELY LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING MORE OF HER, AND I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT SHE WOULD DO WONDERFUL ON THE GOSPEL SCENE, SHE DEFINITELY HAS THE VOICE FOR IT.

  • Ermy Erm (Tornados hit the Chi last night!! I woke up in the dark!)

    @ WYZE…im good homie…just been boppin my head in and out all day crackin up at comments

    @ Nikkster, Kzz, Aunty Vivvy, IJM, HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!!

  • real

    THANK GOD FANTASIA IS NO LONGER WITH THAT DAMN MANAGEMENT TEAM FROM AMERICAN IDOL, THEY WAS STUPID AND RACIST TO ME, THEY DIDN’T NO WHAT TO DO WITH R&B ACTS..

    SHE LOOKS GOOD ON THE COVER AND FANTASIA CAN REALLY SING!

  • Just Sayin

    @ Official TimeHater(Check me out!)

    She lookds good on the cover- nice makeup. I’m not a particular fan of her music, not feeling her vocal style and all but I wish her the best and I’m glad that she found someone who makes her happy.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    Why is it everytime I read your post I hear Dave Chapelle’s voice and start crackin up?

    No matter what you say I hear Dave Chapelle and start laughing…

    :-)

  • NYC Gal

    I just love Tasia. This is a good pic of her. The size she was when she audition for AI, she needs to get back to that weight. The music business is all about size. Her tat doesn’t look good where she put it. She needs to take a cue from Ri Ri and put it in places where it doesn’t distract from her look and singing.

  • Book Worm

    Fantasia looks good on this pic and her voice is off da chain! She has REAL talent and it’s sad theat she won’t “blow up” like she should because of her looks or because she won’t conform to what others think she should be.

  • NYC Gal

    @Book Worm

    On radio, she could be anyting because it is the voice that we are hearing. But when you go on TV and you’re singing, if you are wearing an outfit that doesn’t fit your body type or you have huge tats or huge breast implants, they are a distraction to your singing and no one pays any attention to your voice.

  • Somer

    It doesn’t matter who manage Tasia, if she continues to walk around looking like the average hood rat on MLK Dr. (in any city) than she will continue to turn off people. It was rumors that Oprah was trying to give her some REAL TALK while she was doing the Color Purple, and Tasia wasn’t trying to hear it. I personally think she is a lost cause but some producer on the up & up will fool with her.

  • GOOD PICTURE!!!!

    I am going to get the mag.God bless you Fantasia, looking good girl!!!!

  • NYC Gal

    I don’t know why people are taking this personally has a hate on Tasia. This is not limited to her only because this is her post it pertains to her. Pam Anderson has huge breast implants that does not fit her body size and no matter what she wears e.g a conservative suit she looks like a bimbo in a suit, ball gown she looks like a bimbo in gown, dye her hair black she looks like a bimbo with black hair. Her huge breast implants distracts from everything she wears.

  • Official TimeHater

    @ Just Sayin’

    I actually do a really mean Dave Chappelle as a TimeHater “mark azz marks, trick azz marks, punk b*tches, skip skops, skanks and scalawags, hoes, heifers hee-haws and hoo-li-hoos”

  • Ms. T.

    This is the best that I have ever seen Tae-Tae look. A nice change from the usual ghetto-fab look. Tae-Tae, Foxy Brown, and Keisha Cole have that ghetto-swag look down to an exact science. At least Tasia and Keisha are trying to improve things. Foxy is just plain through. She can’t be cleaned up.

  • rachel

    Fantasia had a gift from God with her voice , and she started it out with a nice trimmed little body and classy style….but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo

    She had to let the GHETTO IN HER fu@k it up!!

    To bad!!

  • http://lovingmeans@aol.com 1TruDiva w/The PlatinumVocals!!!

    It’s really more to the Idol story then meets the eye!!!!!!!

    During the time Fantasia was on, the “higher ups” ALREADY had an idea of who would win, just as they do for each season. When her story came out–it just added to the stereotype they already suggested.

    For instance–take Carrie Underwood. They tried to make her as wholesome as possible!

    Reuben–The “Luther” image. We can go on and on…..

  • http://lovingmeans@aol.com 1TruDiva w/The PlatinumVocals!!!

    If you notice, the R&B singers have not had the notoriety that the rest of them had. It’s a damn good thing Tasia got the spotlight on Broadway! That was because of her gift. Clear and thru!

    In my honest opinion–once she takes a look at where the industry is going and reforms herself, (toning down a bit and subtle changes in her image) I believe there’s no stopping her!

    Real talk!

  • NYC Gal

    @TruDiva

    I totally agree with you. When Tasia first auditioned, she had nice short hair and her dress sense was on point. The last time I saw Tasia she was performing on AI and she was in a lycra/spandex jumpsuit with flaming red hair and she was screaming some song. Simon, Paula and Randy were just shaking their heads in disbelief. She just needs a good hair and clothes stylist. I have confidence in her that she will see the light because she hasn’t been in the biz long enough to get typecast. Maybe she should take a break and go into acting because she’s pretty good.

  • http://lovingmeans@aol.com 1TruDiva w/The PlatinumVocals!!!

    @ NYC Gal–

    Thanks! I was starting to get a little dismayed–seeing that people thought I was ripping her apart when in fact I was doing just the opposite.

    I guess it’s an NY thing!

    Shout outs to my fam up top!

    Lol!!!!

  • justice

    I LIKE FANTASIA SHE IS A GOOD SINGER AND IS JUST NOT TRYING TO BE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE

  • NYC Gal

    @TruDiva

    You’re very welcome! I didn’t see you hating on Tasia. I too didn’t like the baby momma song. She just needs some direction or sometime off.

  • 2cute4u♥♥♥

    Fantasia will make a comeback!

  • ohnoudient

    Time to pay the piper mama! All those disappointed fans that traveled by bus to see her ungrateful ass in Color Purple (literally thousands of black folks, many of whom did not recoup their money) are applauding right now.

    She forgot where she came from when that opportunity came her way and literally told ppl to kiss her ass by not taking the role or the commitment that came with it serious enough, and now all those ppl will watch her fade away to “remember her?” status.

    What a waste of a superior voice. Maybe if another opportunity comes her way she will appreciate it and the ppl that support her now.

    Feel absolutely nothing for her. She is getting exactly what she deserves.

  • @ohnoudient

    You are a raving uninformed lunatic! With all the information that has been published about Tasia’s CP absences due to the tumor in her throat, you are still stuck on stupid. Spouting all that hatred for someone you don’t even know. Seek help.

  • tiggyy

    She never had any class or appeal, and after all this time her career has gone nowhere.

  • real

    Hey (ohnoudient)..she had a tumor in her throat that is why she missed shows. Wait until the magazine comes out and READ IT!!!!!!!!!!

  • FANNY IS OPRAH JR.

    I SAY SHE IS OPRAH JR, NOT BECAUSE OF HER CLOTHES BUT BECAUSE OF HER CHARACTER AND BUSINESS SENSE.

    YOU ALL ARE ABSOLUTELY CLUELESS ABOUT THIS GIRL, JUST PLAIN CLUELESS BECAUSE YOU ARE JUDGING FROM THE OUTSIDE. SHE WOULD HAVE IT THIS WAY.

    YOU ALL DO NOT KNOW FANTASIA NOT AT ALL.THAT’S ALL I GOT TO SAY,AND SHE DOES NOT TELL ANYTHING, THE ONLY REASON SHE MENTIONED IDOL 19 IS TO CLEAR UP THE LIE THEY TOLD TO COVER THE FACT SHE FIRED THEM…THEY KNEW IT WAS OVER WHEN SHE LEFT NY. IF NOT BEFORE.

    I PERSO0NALLY AM LAUGHING AT YOU FO0LS, JUST LIKE YOU DID KNOW SHE HAD COLLABERATED WITH KEIFER SUTHERLAND…???????

    MAKE SURE YOU KEEP LOOKING AT ALL THESE PICS, OKAY FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT AND KEEP FLAPPING YOUR GUMS ABOUT STUFF YOU ARE SO WRONG ABOUT!!!!

    BY THE WAY OPRAH HAS NO PROBLEM WITH FANTASIA, SHE KNOWS THESE BLOGS AND THE MEDIA HAS TRASHED HER TO THE NINES TO, THEY PAY THIS STUFF NO ATTENTION, IN FACT FANTASIA IS IN GOOD COMPANY.

  • FROM NC

    Fanny is just good people and everyone who knows her and her family says this, NO HOODRATS, beautiful folks, don’t let these pics fool you.

    I love the s2s cove getting the mag want to hear the truth form Fantasia.

    Some of you all broke butts going to be reading it in the check out… and you know it.

  • real

    FANNY IS OPRAH JR., you need to chill and get your facts right, you suppose to know FANTASIA RIGHT?

    She is not doing anything with Keifer just a rumor. Tell Fantasia she needs to stay in touch with her fans.

  • Neekie

    Why does this look just like a pic Mary J. Blige had in a magazine a while back? The hair..the pose and everything. Wish I could find the mag.

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  • _tech_guru_papa_

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    Backup your registry or make a restore point just in case.

    Under search: regedit

    Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\

    Locate: folder “iaStor”

    Under “iaStor” you will find a folder named “Parameter” > delete this folder

    Locate: folder “iaStorv”

    Under “iaStorv” you will find a folder named “Parameter” > delete this folder

    Reload Vista

    Regards,

    Carl

  • _tech_guru_papa_

    Good Day

    This post opens set of articles devoted to computer security.

    At first, I would like to give some basic definitions for variety of modern computer threats. All these threats are currently known as Malware.

    Malware (“malicious software”) is any application or file that is harmful to a computer or computer user. This would include, computer worms, viruses, Trojan horses, keyloggers, spyware, adware, web-page hijackers, driveby downloads, and any programming that gathers info about a computer user without their expressed permission.

    4 years ago, the most security threats that most people came across were Viruses.

    This is no longer the case!

    There are new threats out; and they take no prisoners, no longer is an anti-virus application sufficient to stop the invaders, the web is a complex place and the technology is getting so advanced that you need to act now to protect your machine and your private\personal data.

    A quick overview of some of the more common malware that you might find, sorted by level of threat:

    SPYWARE

    Spyware is any technology that aids in gathering info about a person or organisation without their knowledge. On the Internet (where it is sometimes called a spybot or tracking software), spyware is programming that is put in someone’s computer to secretly gather info about the user and relay it to advertisers or other interested parties.

    TROJAN

    Trojans are malicious programs often used by hackers to attack target computers, usually to provide a backdoor into the system but sometimes just to cause destruction. Remote Access Trojans (RATs) are the most famous class of trojans and they usually come in two parts – a server that is sent to infect the victim, and a client that the hacker uses to connect to the server after the victim is infected. There are many ways that hackers can use to infect a target with a trojan, and careful security measures aren’t always enough – a strong anti-trojan program can easily detect tens of thousands of trojans that would otherwise be near-impossible for a human to find.

    VIRUS

    A program or piece of code that is loaded onto your computer without your knowledge and runs against your wishes. Viruses can also replicate themselves. All computer viruses are manmade. A simple virus that can duplicate itself over and over again is relatively easy to produce. Even such a simple virus is dangerous because it will quickly use all available memory and bring the system to a halt. An even more dangerous type of virus is one capable of transmitting itself across networks and bypassing security systems.

    WORMS

    Worms are in a similar category to viruses. Usually spread by email and containing their own email engine, they attempt to spread themselves to all the people in your address books, impacting greatly on network traffic on the web. Sometimes you will find viruses also contain Worm code so the virus is able to mail multiple people using its email engine, whilst infecting the machine with a specific virus, making the sender of the virus hard to find as it looks like it has come from someone you know.

    KEYLOGGERS

    A keylogger is an application that has been dropped onto a PC that actively monitors all your keystrokes and mouse clicks to try to capture both personal data, passwords, and browser habits, it will also capture any data entered on any web site including secure sites like online bank sites. This data is then stored in an encrypted text file either on the machine or sent to a pre-defined server for the sender of the keylogger to access at his discretion.

    ADWARE

    Adware is any software application in which advertising banners are displayed while the program is running. The authors of these applications include additional code that delivers the ads, which can be viewed through pop-up windows or through a bar that appears on a computer screen. The justification for adware is that it helps recover programming development cost and helps to hold down the cost for the user.

    HIJACKERS

    A hijacker is a expression used to explain a registry entry on your machine that has been placed there to re-direct your browser to another site, usually ad-purposed. These are not normally harmful for the machine, other that the fact that it will stop you from getting to the web site you wish to visit. It is more of a frustration than a security risk; however, some Hijackers will attempt to redirect you from Hijack removal sites.

    Hope you like this article. Next time I will write about tools used to prevent of/remove particular threat types listed here.

    Regards,

    Carl

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