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By Giedrius Majauskas on December 4, 2010
Bitnami stack is a package of software that is required to run specific web application separately. Typically, web applications require server programs preinstalled and running : web server ( apache usually), database server and various components. Bitnami “Stack” is free pre-assembled packages, that can be installed and launched on your own PC, home server, virtual [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged Bitnami, ruby |
By Giedrius Majauskas on November 25, 2010
Fanbox.com is a spam service that pretends to be a “social network”. It is a scam, because it generally does 2 things: a) provides paid SMS solution while being listed in couple of sites as phishing one (hphosts, for example) b) Spams people in contact list with deceitful emails to grow its business. I’ll focus [...]
Posted in General | Tagged fanbox, scams, sms.ac |
By Giedrius Majauskas on November 14, 2010
A new fake system maintenance utility is infecting more and more PCs this weekend: Ultra Defragger. This malware is clone of HDD Defragmenter/System Defragmenter/etc and has little differences except in the name. It shows same outrageous claims about hardware malfunctions and offers software-based “cure” for 80 USD. Everything it shows is a lie. For example [...]
Posted in Security |
By Giedrius Majauskas on October 28, 2010
The popularity of rogue anti-virus programs, such as Security Tool, or the fake Microsoft Security Essentials clones like Think Point, speaks to the fact that many people are completely oblivious as to how these parasites are to be dealt with. I will therefore try to dispel some misconceptions about these parasites. First of all, many [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged malware |
By Giedrius Majauskas on October 25, 2010
Faked MSE popups have confused lots of people since their launch on August. Most of people have heard about Microsoft Security Essentials, and they did not expect that it could be a sign of malware infection. It was clever step to give users a choice of five rogues. However, for some reason this changed. Meet [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged thinkpoint |
By Giedrius Majauskas on October 25, 2010
Reimage is a automated registry and PC repair tool. It is similar to Registry cleaners, though it claims that it works differently, by performing deeper analysis of PC health and having a configuration and file repository, which allows reversing of damage done to PC (aka deleted files/drivers/etc). The controversy with reimage is that it is [...]
Posted in Reviews | Tagged Reimage |
By Giedrius Majauskas on October 19, 2010
Google redirect virus is a group of trojans and rootkits that redirect user searches to undesired websites. Such behavior can be noticed during rogue antivirus attacks as well, when search is hijacked and no legitimate malware remover companies are displayed or accessed in results. Thus Google redirects are quite dangerous. These redirects might affect other [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged Google redirects |
By Giedrius Majauskas on October 5, 2010
Today I got chance to download Skype for Android. Although it was available for Verizon users in USA, most of us could not enjoy it. We had to resort to Fring or Nimbuzz. Although both of these are good chat programs, they worked not so well with Skype. The interface of program is really nice, [...]
Posted in Reviews | Tagged Android, skype |
By Giedrius Majauskas on October 1, 2010
I read security blogs daily. For 2 months, I read TechJaws too, which is quite well written, but quite inexperienced in what they are doing. Some of the “best posts” are ones that bash “Rogue” bloggers and sites with poor WOT reputation. I am on the bad side of this argument, as my rogue removal [...]
Posted in SEM | Tagged rogue, Techjaws |
By Giedrius Majauskas on September 30, 2010
Be extra careful with opening emails from Linkedin and other popular online services! There are lots of scams floating around that try impersonate these websites. They might want to infect your PC or they might want to get your personal information or credit card details. I have received an email from Linkedin today. It looked [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged malware, scam |
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