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. Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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, Read more…
Link exchange between sites of same niche is valid and accepted way of site promotion with some search engine benefits. However, the requests for such link exchange go wrong sometimes. On New Years Eve I got such a request that I would like to share. Now what is wrong with Read more…
Bitnami stack is a package of software that is required to run specific web application separately. Typically, web applications require server programs preinstalled and running : web server ( apache usually), database server and various components. Bitnami “Stack” is free pre-assembled packages, that can be installed and launched on your Read more…
Fanbox.com is a spam service that pretends to be a “social network”. It is a scam, because it generally does 2 things: a) provides paid SMS solution while being listed in couple of sites as phishing one (hphosts, for example) b) Spams people in contact list with deceitful emails to Read more…