Since I heard the first time about AMTSO (Anti Malware Testing Standards Organization), in one of the VB Conferences (I think two years ago), I asked myself whether or not this association makes sense. I’ve heard later on that Avira is also part of it. But, I simply forgot about this issue. I recently started […]
Softpedia took again one of my posts in the Avira Techblog and wrote an article based on it: “In the recent past we saw emails looking like phishing mails, which were spam though actually. The spammers tried to make them look as much as possible as official mails from the entity they were faking: Amazon, […]
Short answer: NO Long answer: a very good one provided by Randy Abrams Thanks for the great article, Randy !
I just finished the exam CompTIA Project+ (2009 Objectives). So, I am certified IT Project Manager 😉 Number of questions: 100 Length of test: 90 minutes Passing score: 710 on a scale of 100-900 Recommended experience: One year of managing, directing or participating in small- to medium-scale projects Language: English Exam code: PK0-003 I got […]
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PayPal security warning email with malware There is a new wave of emails pretending to come from Paypal having a ZIP archive attached. The email says that your PayPal account have been accessed by a third party and, in order to protected your account, PayPal has been locked.The user is invited to review the report […]
Until now, I used Twitterfeed.com to publish several RSS Feeds to Ping.fm and from there to several social media networks like Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, Yahoo and Flickr. For quite some time now, TwitterFeed is no longer compatible with Ping.fm. I’ve been quite patient and supportive with both Ping.fm and Twitterfeed.com . I even created bugs […]
From time to time, the users of Twitter are unable to login on the official website. Sometimes the screen below can be seen, sometimes just a timeout error. Interesting enough, after you refresh a couple of times, you are able to do whatever you were trying to do, and then never get this error until […]
In today’s world of multicore computing, it’s important to make sure that your multithreaded applications scale. A longstanding approach for making the most of multiple processors is to arrange for different resources to be protected by different synchronization objects, or locks. A drawback of this approach is that a bug in your threading model can […]
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