I just tried Microsoft Security Essentials for my Windows computers and I have to say that it's a fantastic antivirus software. McAfee and Symantec really need to watch out since this is going to make them lose customers. Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Reviews, The World According to Xavier
CreateBanner.com
Create your own banners online in just a few minutes. We have ready-made designs you can choose from.
WebSite Tonight®
Build your own web site tonight with WebSite Tonight®. Choose from over 2,000 web design and color combinations in our template library, including 120 pre-built websites customized to fit your business or style – just click and choose.
We've all seen the headlines in major newspapers, news web sites and on TV about the Swine Flue outbreaks. The Swine Flue is on the top 10 list twice over trending topics from Twitter (see the picture) and at Google you already get over 75,000 hits! Spammers have of course noticed this and their already [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Search Engines & Directories, Social Media
As always spammers take advatage of big events to make people interested in the emails they get. And as alwasy spammers have already started sending out fake emails about the Swine Flue. McAfee is reporting about spam emails trying to use Swine Flue to sell pills. If you follow the links in any of the [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
I hope you didn't enjoy your spam free inbox too much since the spammers are back after the shutdown of McColo in San Jose on the 11th of November. When McColo was shut down by companies like Google and McAfee the spam flood decreased by about 70-75% over just a few days. Also the number [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
A few days ago McColo Corp in San Jose (Californa) was disconnected from the Internet. According to some sources McColo Corp has been responsible for as much as 75% of the spam in the world!!!!! Hurricane Electric and Global Crossing cut off the Internet line sometime on Monday or Tuesday and already on Wednesday a [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
This Monday McAfee released an update of their antivurs software that by accident classified a file in Windows Vista as a trojan. The supposed trojan should steal the users password according to the incorrect information from McAfee and some users may have gotten the file ”conime.exe” deleted from their Windows Vista computers . McAfee noticed [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
Did you really think you could stopp spammers with CAPTCHA? Did you? First of all CAPTCHA is a way of telling humans from machines (or at least it used to be) when filling out forms. By adding a small picture the machines can't read, but the humans can and let them fill in the hidden [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Ecommerce
On the first of August the Xavier Media blog mention a hack of a Swedish online bookstore that caused the web site to distribute malware. Since most of us are extremly dependent on our web sites it's important to check out your own web site to make sure it's not scarying your visitors away. This [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
In the beginning of this year antivirus and security company McAfee acquired Scanalert, a company that certify if a site is safe from hacking or not. Now one of the anti-fraud researchers at Scanalert is himself suspected for fraud The researcher is facing fraud charges in Indiana, not only once but 11 times for security [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
