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By Giedrius Majauskas on February 2, 2012
It is not a big secret that I like to try new PHP frameworks. Yii framework was on my list of things I should try, so I have experimented with it a bit. To summarize, I have switched back to Cake PHP. But let me explain further. The framework itself is quite good, and documentation [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged frameworks, php, yii |
By Giedrius Majauskas on October 3, 2011
Rogue AV market was mostly dead through August and September. Although this might be caused by Chronopay raid, the timing of the raids did not match with the decline. Additionally, we have seen significant shift to different kind of malware: google redirects, new kinds of rootkits, Bitcoin mining software and other kinds of parasites that [...]
Posted in Security |
By Giedrius Majauskas on September 28, 2011
So, the new Kindle Fire and several supplemental models are out. I wrote my expectations in the previous post about Kindle. To tell the truth, I got more than expected from Amazon’s announcement and it is much harder to choose now. First, there is Kindle Fire – a new tablet with Android and Kindle application. [...]
Posted in Reviews |
By Giedrius Majauskas on September 27, 2011
Kindle Fire is supposedly the next generation e-book reader that is no longer based on e-ink technology. E-ink technology, which would offer significant energy saving and sunlight readability benefits, is not so suitable for tablets. First of all, it is slow, thus it is not so suitable for multimedia content. Secondly, it does not offer [...]
Posted in Reviews | Tagged kindle |
By Giedrius Majauskas on August 27, 2011
Several botnets were shut down and the CEO of rogue parmacy and fake antivirus credit card processor was arrested recently. This resulted in the significant drop of malicious software activity in August. Many took time to celebrate and rightfully so. However, I do not think this is the end of Fake AVs or malware in general. [...]
Posted in Security |
By Giedrius Majauskas on August 10, 2011
Ndrive 11 is a navigation that has a version for Android phones. I have reviewed version 10 already, and version 11 is not new either. However, It was not available for Lithuania in android market until recently. Although there are maps for East European countries including Lithuania, Baltic countries were excluded for available country list [...]
Posted in Reviews | Tagged Android, ndrive |
By Giedrius Majauskas on July 13, 2011
Keeping and tracking information about social sharing and actions becomes more and more important for anyone that cares about site’s visitors and site itself. However, not all tools allow easy tracking “out of the box”, so there is some work for developer. I assume that google+, share and retweet buttons are already on the site. [...]
Posted in SEM, Social |
By Giedrius Majauskas on February 25, 2011
Its end of the February already, and time flies really fast. So I think it is good time to do some retrospective about what I am doing and where I am going. Last year was a blast – wedding, trip to Portugal, significant success with 2-viruses.com, starting up my own company. Most of these things [...]
Posted in General | Tagged goals |
By Giedrius Majauskas on February 4, 2011
A goal of typical fake antivirus program is convincing you into giving away your credit card details. This can be done in several ways: 1. Simulating PC problems: showing porn, slowing it down, blocking other programs. This forces users into searching for solution to make PC usable. Quite often fake antiviruses try leaving user no [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged avg, malware |
By Giedrius Majauskas on January 7, 2011
Last autumn was lead by ThinkPoint (or fake Microsoft essentials alerts) family of malware. Together with Security Tool Virus it was one of the biggest and the most promoted parasites. Most of other parasite families were divided in smallish, slower attacks that haven’t hit that huge amount of PCs. However, in late November ThinkPoints family [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged palladium pro, thinkpoint |
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