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 Read more…
[ad#ref-spyw]KVMSecure … 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, Read more…
[ad#ref-spyw] 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 Read more…
[ad#ref-spyw]VirusIsolator is another rogue antispyware which was created to scare users. It is low budget project – standard rogue website with the common “90% of computers are infected” threat. Most of the users would not signup at such poor Virus Isolator website, but some of them might fall for popups, Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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. [ad#ref-spyw] So, what constitutes good spyware Read more…
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… One has Read more…
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. Read more…