Giedrius Majauskas blog

My Personal experience with anti-spywares

Last weekend I had to do virus/spyware removal on my parent computers. They relied on EZ firewall/antivirus which, in my personal opinion, is not so good tool (polite way to say it is crap). But oh well.
The infection - some downloaders, probably gotten from infected flash, a backdoor, adware which caused explorer to crash each […]

May 28th, 2008 Posted by Giedrius | Reviews | no comments

Wordpress 2.5 - what is new

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 divided […]

April 2nd, 2008 Posted by Giedrius | Reviews | no comments

Short evaluation of spyware removers - affiliate and end-user perspective

This will be a short review of some of the leading anti-spyware solutions. Mostly the talk will be about good or bad things and things they should improve. Nor will I touch some of subjects that might be important for some of the users.

So, what constitutes good spyware remover? In my opinion, the most important […]

March 28th, 2008 Posted by Giedrius | Reviews | no comments

MyWOT part 2 - the results

I am using mywot for couple of days, and I would say I kind of like it, though its not something unexpected. Sure, I am happy, that most of sites belonging to firms I work with do well.
My main concern was that community-driven opinions might be incorrect regards some of the product vendors due to […]

March 7th, 2008 Posted by Giedrius | Reviews | no comments

MyWOT

WOT (Web of trust) is firefox add-on for voting on security of sites and getting warnings. It was recommended in one blog, and I wanted to give it a try.
The idea of the software is quite nice, a community based votes on sites and warning system. The single fear is that it might happen to […]

March 5th, 2008 Posted by Giedrius | Reviews | one comment

Pligg review

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, […]

July 3rd, 2007 Posted by Giedrius | Reviews | no comments

Why do I use firefox

Couple of years ago the browser world looked simple: There is internet explorer and that’s it. Of cause, there were opera, safari for MAC, and mozilla, but they were for marginal users: geeks, Linux or Mac users and security aware folk. IE had more that 90 % of the market and that ment every home […]

January 5th, 2006 Posted by Giedrius | Reviews | 3 comments