Everyone knows that nice feeling in their gut when they see first follower in twitter account that they do not know. The first impulse is to show curtsey and follow the follower back and see account grow forth. This is Read more…
Privacy center is quite annoying piece of rogue anti-spyware programs because it uses multiple trojans for spreading around. The problem is, most of single removers fail to remove all versions of these Trojans now, as it is stated in comments Read more…
Voting is quite basic element of any site that claims to be social. This is a basic tool to get opinion of visitors on topics and works as viral marketing too. However, sooner or later your visitors will question if Read more…
Conficker (latest one is Conficker.C) is one of the few malwares nowdays that bring something new in the market that relies on new names and new skins only. The thing distinguishing it from crowd is unique registry modification scheme that makes Read more…
It looks like Spyware Guard 2009 manufacturers have drained last bits of money from their former scam and produced a new “racer” – Malware Defender 2009. The design is almost the same, even system control center fake alert looks about Read more…
Today was eventfull day. While launching a new version of 2-viruses.com I found a security breach, affecting WP 2.x, at least versions 2.0 and 2.1. They partially (at least) work at wordpress 2.7 as well. Apparently, it is possible to Read more…
On request on commenter, I have taken a look in Elgg platform. We are developing separate inhouse platform now, but it is always nice to look at different code and see whats made correctly and what can we question. Let’s Read more…
For 4 years I work on some image heavy projects. I started clueless. Now, when I look at first works they are not so good, though I have seen far worse implementations of such sites. Such sites have quite a Read more…
This post is not about my experience as freelancer, although I do freelance now and then. This post is about my experience consulting companies about their web projects and seeing what they got from freelancers and smallish companies. Here are some of the main problems:
So, you lost your domain. Maybe due to credit card fail during renewal, maybe the mail address of domain got hacked. Or maybe you lost a case on domain to competition. Happened to our rivals once. After lots of screaming Read more…