Category Archives: Internet Security

To Whom To Believe: Google Or McAfee?

I use McAfee suite on one of my computers. It has McAfee Site Advisor which should help with knowing which Web sites are safe and which are risky or dangerous. Today (April 2, 2009) I was surprised that McAfee warned … Continue reading

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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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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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Victoria Secret Competition Gets Hacked

In this article I tried to explain why we should not believe Internet polls and explained some of ways to cheat them. Here is one more proof: Victoria Secret competition gets hacked. Continue reading

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Edgios or will new Google come from Serbia!?

Edgios is a large-scale distributed search ‘cloud’ that offers higher-quality search results. Users participate in the cloud by downloading the Edgios personal search software, and connecting that software to the net. Continue reading

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