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		<title>My Personal experience with anti-spywares</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majauskas.com/personal-experience-with-anti-spywares</link>
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		<title>KVMSecure 2008 or running out of acronyms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KVMSecure &#8230; what a hell? It looks like we completely run out of names to name a rogue spyware remover and any letters with one word related to security and viruses will do the trick. Add year 2008 to the end of the name, and you look almost reliable. Almost, as most of the people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majauskas.com/kvmsecure-2008-or-running-out-of-acronyms</link>
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		<title>IE Antivirus - just another scam looking for your money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majauskas.com/ie-antivirus-just-another-scam-looking-for-your-money</link>
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		<title>VirusIsolator - how easy is to clone another rogue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VirusIsolator is another rogue antispyware which was created to scare users. It is low budget project - standard rogue website with the common &#8220;90% of computers are infected&#8221; 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. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majauskas.com/virusisolator-how-easy-is-to-clone-another-rogue</link>
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		<title>XPAntivirus or how to pretend being legitimate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majauskas.com/xpantivirus-or-how-to-pretend-being-legitimate</link>
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		<title>Tax season, tax season.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majauskas.com/tax-season-tax-season</link>
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		<title>Wordpress 2.5 - what is new</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majauskas.com/wordpress-25-what-is-new</link>
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		<title>Short evaluation of spyware removers - affiliate and end-user perspective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majauskas.com/short-evaluation-of-spyware-removers-affiliate-and-end-user-perspective</link>
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		<title>SpyMaxx - a new scam by pandora software</title>
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SpyMaxx is a new, desperate wave of fake spyware removal tools that try to upkeep legitimate software image. This branch of them is marketed by pandora software, and includes such scams like WinlFixer And Infestop. The websites look appearently normal, the payment is processed by their parent company&#8230; One has to wonder why there is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majauskas.com/spymaxx-a-new-scam-by-pandora-software</link>
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		<title>Beware of Spyware Sweeper Pro</title>
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Spyware sweeper is a legitimate spyware remover and quite good one too. This was not unnoticed by scammers and they released a rogue skinned similarly to spyware sweeper - SpywareSweeperPro. It was released in the hopes that the users would believe that SpywareSweeperPro is an advanced version of legitimate remover. Of couse, nothing is advanced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majauskas.com/beware-of-spyware-sweeper-pro</link>
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		<title>9 Internet security tips for 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Upgrade software you use. Stop using IE 5.5, 6. Get IE7 fast! FireFox or Opera are even better. Older software has more known exploits and is less than safe, as some versions are already not supported anymore. Don&#8217;t risk. That&#8217;s one of the most important steps for safe browsing.

 

2. Keep your windows updated. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majauskas.com/9-internet-security-tips-for-2008</link>
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		<title>MyWOT part 2 - the results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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,&#160;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majauskas.com/mywot-part-2-the-results</link>
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		<title>MyWOT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majauskas.com/mywot</link>
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		<title>Upgrade to wp 2.3.3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today took time to upgrade wordpress to version 2.3.3. It was not seamless process, as somehow new tables were not created and thus lost all the categories. Had to re-create missing tables by hand and same goes for categories. At the moment everything is working, but will have to check the logs later on.
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		<link>http://www.majauskas.com/upgrade-to-wp-233</link>
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		<title>Why i got problems with Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although Facebook.com is not popular in Lithuania, there are still Lithuanians that use it. Not many, though, but even I got an account and couple of friends there. So, whats the problem&#8230;.
Recently I got an email to another box that friend is looking for me on facebook. The name is even Lithuanian, however&#8230; I do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majauskas.com/why-i-got-problems-with-facebook</link>
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		<title>Remove WinReanimator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WinReanimator is a new infection, that got epidemic status just after Valentines day this February. Together with SystemDefender, they started succesfully taking place left after Virus Heat infections, although scam is about the same. The symptoms are following: You browse websites, get to infected ones (luckily, these are mostly porn or crack websites) and start [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.majauskas.com/remove-winreanimator</link>
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