Continuous development is the process of constantly improving and updating a product or service. It involves making small changes over time in response to customer needs, market trends, and new technology. This approach recognizes that a product or service can always be improved. Continuous development is becoming more popular in Read more…
Ahrefs is backlink checker SEO analysis and competitor monitoring company. It boosts one of the biggest backlink indexes in the market. For any bigger site you can be sure that its bots try to crawl you, at least to improve its backlink index. Ahrefs plans start at 99 USD ( Read more…
File Spider ransomware hit Balkan countries and demands ransom in 96 hours 2017 was a year when security researchers and Internet surfers had to survive many massive ransomware attacks: WannaCry, NotPetya and one of the most recent ones called File Spider crypto-malware. Since hackers are figuring out new techniques to Read more…
Ransomware is hot security topic for the last few years. While only few of them were successful, they have several distinct advantages over other scareware ( and aggressive malware in general): 1. They force to use irreversible payment systems like Bitcoin (and prepaid cards were working OK in the past). Read more…
I have hosted one of my site at Hostdime Brazil branch and after hell of weekend (Fri/Sat) I have decided to run away from them as fast as possible. There is nothing more painful than looking for hosting in South America. The prices are double of everywhere else. The networks are Read more…
As an owner of 2-viruses.com I have clashed with couple legitimate companies in years 2014/15 that had asked for deletions of removal instructions or reviews. Some companies had legitimate claims however others rely on the strategy that was labeled as rogue even a decade ago. By definition, rogue antiviruses have Read more…
Some time ago, I wrote on 2-viruses about yac.mx hijacker . The hijack in question was done by Yet Another Cleaner – an application written by ELEX (taiwanese company). It targeted Latin/South America mostly. We categorised it as PUP – potentially unwanted application/hijack. Only some versions of this program change Read more…
At this point there are quite significant increase in malicious browser plugins that displays ads without enough disclosure. Quite often their tracks are hidden and it is not so easy to remove them. The makers use 2 ways to start showing adware : Distributing plugins with bundles or trojans (aka Read more…
This is an update about securing wordpress admin and blocking spam bots from writing comments. Although I use Akismet, spam bots might use up your apache children connections or make harder to find false – possitives in spam messages. The main problem I faced is how to select IPs of commentators Read more…
HotStartSearch virus also known as HotStartSearch.com is a browser hijacker that can be added as an application to Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. Usually it affects all of the Internet browsers installed on a computer. The obvious signs of this browser hijacker infection are replacement of home page, Read more…