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Top10 spyware in 2006

By Giedrius Majauskas on July 31, 2007

Yesterday, I’ve been reading answers.yahoo.com and found a question that seemed pretty ridiculous. Some guy asked where he could download some spyware. Wow, I though, he must be crazy. Everyone is talking about spyware, malware and adware and it seems to be all over the Net. But only then I realized finding spyware was not [...]

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Firefox security release 2.0.0.5

By Giedrius Majauskas on July 18, 2007

If you have not upgraded to Firefox 2.0.0.5 and you use Internet Explorer together with firefox, Please upgrade ASAP. There is a lot of finger pointing going on, but one thing is clear: I.E allows executing other programs with un-escaped url thus permitting malicious code execution in other applications, including Firefox 2.0 < 2.0.0.5 and [...]

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New mass-mailer?

By Giedrius Majauskas on July 9, 2007

After a wave of “greeting cards”, I started receiving a new mailing worm letters in my mailboxes, claiming that my mailbox is infected and only a “patch” would help. If you will receive similar letters, DO NOT open the link in them! It will infect your PC! Dear Customer, Our robot has detected an abnormal [...]

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Keeping default password on your devices

By Giedrius Majauskas on July 9, 2007

When you purchase a network device, you wish it could work out of the box. No tweeking, no custom parameters – just plug in it and use it. This is now the case with most of the hardware, however it has a small cost. Anyone can access your hardware parameters using simple password list from [...]

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Pligg review

By Giedrius Majauskas on July 3, 2007

After the mis-happenings with newscloud platform, I have decided to take a look into Pligg. It is based purely on digg and has customisable interface and supports multiple skins. I was really impressed. Although there are not too much modules, the system is quite capable, interface is nice. After looking into code, I was confirmed [...]

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