Computers related hardware, software

sorinblog.com wish you all happy new year, full with accomplishments!
I hope that in this new year, 2012, science will help us to cure the sick and to improve our life expectancy.

I search for some time, a plugin that can help me to prevent click fraud.
I could not find one.
There is clickaider.com service for fraud detection but it seems that is not good enough and was not developed over 2008.
Maybe Adsense team will make such plugin to help us.
I start to believe that this is a thing that can’t be done, because the ads are loaded from Google servers, are not static ads, stored in some files in every webmaster site.
I found some products that are not free that promise to solve this issue, but I can’t trust them, because I don’t see any free alternative that solved this issue.

Technically speaking, Kaspersky is controlling now the botnet network Kelihos.

This botnet network, sent every day 3,2 millions of SPAM messages.
The danger is not over, because the vulnerabilities used by malware for infection still exist on that systems.
Principal suspects in the case Kelihos are Dominique Alexander Piatti, dotFREE Group SRO and John Does 1-22 that owns the domain names lewgdooi.cz.cc and cz.cc
used to control the botnet network. Interesting is the fact that Piatti has registered a few domain names used by MacDefender.

Full article at source: Chip.ro

Congratulations Microsoft and Kaspersky!
I hope that you will continue the work as a team to destroy networks like this.
I’m sick of nigerian emails and so on, of some people that want to give me money, for the simply fact, that I exist, but in reality they need my data for identity theft and to put my bank balance to zero.

Starting with 27 September Mango update for Windows Phone 7 started to be sent to the Windows Phone owners all around the world.
A few new things are: Twitter, multitasking, using voice recognition in Bing (Bing audio) but also video (Bing Vision), contacts grouping, messages organization on threads, including SMS and Facebook too, unified inbox but also HTML 5 hardware accelerated in IE browser.

Full article on chip.ro

Is not recommended to have 2 antivirus programs with real time protection.
You can install products with scan on demand, like Kaspersky Removal tool, that does not have real time protection, and can detect and remove threats found.
If are used 2 shields for protection from 2 antivirus programs, freezes, errors and speed decrease can appear.
In general antivirus products, check at install time if other antivirus programs are installed and will not continue to finish the installation if you don’t remove the other product or products that are incompatible with it.