By Giedrius on August 30, 2010
I have read Frédéric Beigbeder article about paper books dying and losing the battle to electronic books, and the grim promises that this is very horrible. Beigbeder compares it to Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451″, and argues, that lack of paper books will make the world worse. However, I strongly disagree with him. Gutenbergs invention was created for [...]
Posted in General | Tagged books, kindle |
By Giedrius on August 18, 2010
Security Suite is a misleading rogue antivirus program that uses bunch of trojans to peddle itself. Typical security suite infection starts after visiting pretty harmless-looking sites that hosts Javascript or PDF exploits. Next thing you know, you start seeing lots of popups and alerts claiming about various infections that try to steal data. The worst [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged security suite |
By Giedrius on August 17, 2010
I own 2-viruses.com, and, partly, I promote the site myself. Thus I am exposed to lots of bullshit advices, misconceptions in security market. And there will be no affiliate links in this post, thank you for your attention. First, stop looking for best security product. The status “best” is temporal at most. It also depends [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged AVAST, ESET, Kaspersky, mywot, PCTools, Security, Threatfire |
By Giedrius on July 29, 2010
I am a happy owner of Nexus One, though I have written about some quirks in the past. Now it is time to discuss one problem deeper: common software availability outside USA and couple other lucky countries. And the worst of it is that it affects software, that comes preinstalled in our phones. For example, [...]
Posted in Reviews | Tagged Android, google maps |
By Giedrius on July 19, 2010
People do not want to buy copies that cost that much as original. The same is true for the web. There are plenty of copywriting sites, and each year it is easier and easier to create another copy of website and try to get some market share. For example blogging. 10 or so years ago [...]
Posted in General |
By Giedrius on July 16, 2010
Antivir Solution Pro is a remake of Antimalware Doctor and Antispyware soft. It is a fake antivirus, sharing the name with legitimate Antivir made by Avira. While Avira’s Antivir is one of the most widely recommended free antiviruses packages, the Antivir Solution Pro is dangerous for the PC. First of all, Antivir Solution Pro is [...]
Posted in Security |
By Giedrius on July 8, 2010
I have written about Ndrive in the past. It is one of the best available navigations for your Android phone outside USA and “lucky 11″ (countries, from which google accepts payments in their Android Marketplace). Most of other map software processes payments through google market thus they are not available in most of the countries. [...]
Posted in Reviews | Tagged Android, ndrive |
By Giedrius on July 1, 2010
Most of my income is done in computer security market, and I have follow various tools and events to stay on the top. As with any other market, there are very interesting how the computer security is reflected in social media or how Social media is used in it. Security market got it all backwards [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged mywot |
By Giedrius on June 23, 2010
Have you heard about AV Security Suite? For me this program appears to be a fake spyware remover which should be threatened by deleting all its files and also ignoring its scanners. It is clear that AVSecuritySuite comes from the same family as Antivirus Soft and Antispyware Soft malwares, because the same GUI has been [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged Antispyware Soft |
By Giedrius on June 18, 2010
So, I am married man. That thought still has to sink to me fully, but I am perfectly happy with that. The marriage commenced at 29th of May in the circle of family and friends in Kaunas, my hometown. Everything was perfect, including the fakir show in middle of the night, which was our surprise [...]
Posted in Travel |
Subscribe
Follow
Recent Comments