General

P vs NP

Read here the entire article on DDJ.com: http://www.ddj.com/architect/221600058 I love this remark: “NP-completeness “tells you something very specific:It tells you that if you’re going to look for an algorithm that’s going to work in every case and give you the best solution, you’re doomed: don’t even try. That’s useful information.”

News

Windows 7 and Free Antiviruses

Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 : http://usa.kaspersky.com/shakeitup/ IObit Security : http://db.iobit.com/license-free/win7-special-offer.php Panda Security : http://us.pandasecurity.com/windows7party/index.html are offering free one year subscriptions to everyone… http://windows7news.com/2009/10/22/free-anti-virus-1-year-subscriptions-to-celebrate-windows-7-launch/ Avira is also offering Free-Av to absolutely everyone, all the time, since 10 years. And this no matter which Windows you run. 😉 Bastards … 🙂

Antivirus News

Avert Labs — Malware “Experience” – DON’T

With a huge surprize I’ve read here that McAfee is teaching people how to play with Malware. I do not think that everybody needs to know this. Already too many script kiddies are doing this with catastrophic effects. http://www.mcafeefocus.com/focus09/sessions/GroupMeetings.aspx#avert2 Avert Labs — Malware Experience (By appointment only) Tuesday, Oct. 6 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm […]

General

Softpedia quoted me again

The original article on Avira’s Techblog: http://techblog.avira.com/2009/05/25/malware-and-phishing-statistics-for-germany/en/ And the article on Softpedia: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Germany-Is-A-Significant-Source-of-Malicious-URLs-112566.shtml I am starting to like this 🙂

General

Confiker gots itself a page

Everybody is trying to find a way to get rid of it. And it works. Here is a page with a bunch of tools and HowTOs which remove Conficker. http://www.h-online.com/security/The-H-Security-Conficker-information-site–/features/113002