FON is a global community of for people to share broadband internet access using WiFi access point. FON network is supported by Google, Skype and some high profile venture capital. I discovered existence of this initiative from web site WRT54G.net

To become a Fonero - a person sharing Internet access through FON network is easy. –>

eyeOS is a “web based operating system”. It is a somewhat a misnomer because it is not really operating system. It is a php application that provides desktop metaphor for a web based content management system. However it is interesting to try. Playing with it I created a VMware image of eyeOS based on Puppy Linux distro. Puppy Linux has low footprint and it is very fast. This is why I chose it for this work. Download this torrent and give it a try. Read the rest of this entry »

eWeek reported a new trojan that searches victim hard drive for Word, Exell, PDF and JPG images and encrypts them. The trojan evaded anti-virus filters by staying below radar because of limited distribution.  Trojan attemtps to blackmail computer owner into paying $300 dollars for encryption key to recover the data. If user data is not very valuable this is no more than annoying non-sense. But if data is important and there is no back up copy of it, then user has a problem. The article does not say if there were people that paid  the ransom money. I suspect that there were some…

My previous article has been pretty timely then. Cryzip trojan is exactly a type of  malware that could be stopped by Dekart Disk Firewall.

How to stop a virus, worm or a backdoor from accessing private data? Antivirus and anti-spyware protect from existing and known threats. They cannnot protect from damage that might be caused by yet unknown ‘business worm’ created to mine infected computer for confidential information. This article describes an unusual solution to the problem …
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