April 2008
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By Giedrius on April 28, 2008
IE Antivirus shows that Rogue spyware remover business booms like never before. They have run out of names to label their scams and now use weird combinations of legitimate program names. Well, this about ends their legitimateness, as they are nothing more than frauds that should be removed. IE Antivirus is one of many proofs [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged IE Antivirus, spyware |
By Giedrius on April 16, 2008
VirusIsolator is another rogue antispyware which was created to scare users. It is low budget project – standard rogue website with the common “90% of computers are infected” threat. Most of the users would not signup at such poor Virus Isolator website, but some of them might fall for popups, distributed with help of trojans. [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged spyware, VirusIsolator |
By Giedrius on April 15, 2008
Internet users are becoming slightly more careful. Slightly, as they do not believe each ad they see on website. We have seen MalwareThis and MalwareThat, VirusThis and VirusThat and so on, most of the users already know where the risk is with such products. They do not download such products from clone websites, and if [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged removers, spyware |
By Giedrius on April 11, 2008
April is the season when you have to fill your tax information and, in my case, pay the taxes for the year before. Overall, it was not a bad year once I have calculated everything. Some things could be better. As a true geek, I wrote a wp plugin for calculating my taxes, though it [...]
Posted in General | Tagged taxes, wordpress |
By Giedrius on April 2, 2008
It looks like only couple of weeks passed from the time I updated to 2.3, and it was time to update to 2.5 version of WordPress. This upgrade went seamless for a change, and after couple of moments I was greeted by completely unfamiliar look in admin page. The layout is different. The menu is [...]
Posted in Reviews | Tagged review, wordpress |
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