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How to stop listening to bullshit and make your PC secure for real

How to stop listening to bullshit and make your PC secure for real

By Giedrius Majauskas 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 | Leave a response

What is Antispyware Soft and how to remove it

By Giedrius Majauskas on May 4, 2010

Antispyware Soft is a malware application that secretly enters computer systems and pretends to be an antispyware program. The infiltration of the program is based on Trojan viruses. Antispyware Soft virus changes some entries of your Windows Registry and installs some components there in order to become the dominating program in the system. The program [...]

Posted in Security | Tagged Antispyware Soft, Security | 5 Responses

How to make really unsafe session management (that is still used today)

How to make really unsafe session management (that is still used today)

By Giedrius Majauskas on August 16, 2009

Today I want to talk about really unproductive topic – that is how to code poorly. Or, more exactly, I am going to pick on my unfavorite  piece of social site again, that is Boonex. We will talk about how one should not implement user sessions and how to do it better. Boonex uses unencrypted [...]

Posted in Programming | Tagged Programming, Security | Leave a response

MyWOT part 2 – the results

By Giedrius Majauskas on March 7, 2008

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 [...]

Posted in Reviews | Tagged mywot, Security | 6 Responses

MyWOT

By Giedrius Majauskas on March 5, 2008

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 [...]

Posted in Reviews | Tagged firefox, mywot, Security | 1 Response

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