Monthly Archives: January 2009

What Adware Can Do?

Read this interview and you probably will be scared. It is interview with Matt Knox. He talks about his early days designing and writing adware for Direct Revenue. Continue reading

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Bruce Schneier in Reason Magazine

Interesting interview: Safe, But Also Sorry: Security expert Bruce Schneier talks about privacy and property in the information state – Reason Magazine. Citation: Reason: In Schneier on Security, you emphasize that technology isn’t the only (or even the most important … Continue reading

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Tricked by Wrong PDFCreator Publisher

You probably need to print your files to PDF format sometimes. You can use Adobe Acrobat for this purpose, but it costs some significant amount of money. If your requirements are not to strong, you can use free open source version named PDFCreator.

PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application. Real PDFCreator Web site is: http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator. I have been using it for quite some time and it is really good tool. Easy to use and pretty fast, it satisfies most of my needs regarding creating PDF files i.e. printing to PDF from various programs which I use.

But there are some impostors on the Internet. So, be careful, very careful when downloading open source software, as many impostors use well known names and its variations to trick people and then to take many.
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Connected to Virus Writers?

New question is related to long lasting rumors that some security software companies are connected to virus writers and use them as helpers to increase revenues. Continue reading

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Microsoft’s Free Book

Microsoft Press is celebrating 25 years and gives free book “Writing Secure Code for Windows Vista” by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc. You can download book in PDF format here. They say: For 25 years, Microsoft Press books have focused … Continue reading

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