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Comment on BBC Click buys a botnet by Daniel McDicken

Daniel McDicken — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:18:07 +0000

I laughed so hard I nearly cried… the watch word is vigilance.. Yet when I attempted to report a botnet going via all the proper channels I found myself being ignored by the very foundation said to help combat cyber crime. I join the Shadow Server foundation back in 2004 when they started up.

Then I came across a totally new Bot control program that isnt in the anti-viral lists that infects both windows and linux machines. But I hadn’t used the shadow server site since I joined back in 2004 so I went back to alert them to what I had found and four weeks later I receive no correspondence from the administrator. So in anger I informed them what they can do with my membership and took the liberty of alerting the anti-virus company myself!

And in those four weeks of being ignored how meny more PC’s have become infected?

Comment on A pick of the best Wordpress plugins by StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:50:41 +0000

Great information! Thanks for writing this. It is an honor to participate in the discussion.

Comment on AVG LinkScanner and its fake traffic by Lloyd Borrett

Lloyd Borrett — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:18:25 +0000

AVG has already responded to resolve this issue. The full response can be seen at http://www.avg.com.au/index.cfm?section=news&feature=104

An updated version of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 is already available, see http://www.avgfree.com.au. The Search-Shield component of LinkScanner has been modified to only notify users of malicious sites. The equivalent modification to the the AVG 8.0 commercial products will be rolled out on 9th July 2008.

Once the updated version has been rolled out to all AVG 8.0 users the issue will be resolved.

As of this date, Search-Shield will no longer scan each search result online for new exploits, which was causing the spikes that web masters addressed with us.

However, it is important to note that AVG still offers full protection against potential exploits through the LinkScanner Active Surf-Shield component of our product, which checks every page for malicious content as it is visited but before it is opened.

We’d like to thank the web community for bringing these challenges to our attention, as building community trust and protecting all of our users is critical to us.

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett
Marketing Manager, AVG (AU/NZ)

Comment on A pick of the best Wordpress plugins by richard

richard — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:28:14 +0000

I’ve tried out Google’s sitemap generator! It works wonders!

Comment on London PS3 Launch, Sony gives away HDTVs FREE by richard

richard — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:25:06 +0000

wow! Sony sure is on fire when it comes to PS3 promotion!

Comment on A pick of the best Wordpress plugins by SEO Critic

SEO Critic — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:37:57 +0000

Useful list of WP plugins! Thanks!

Comment on Where are people clicking? by val/logo

val/logo — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:24:17 +0000

Didn’t know about this stuff. I do know about this: http://www.eyetools.com/

Same type of thing, but they can get a test group and have them ‘look’ at your site and tell you exactly what the visitors eye is looking at. Interesting stuff… MarketingSherpa and them have teamed up with them a bit and have some useful ebooks.

Comment on Where are people clicking? by alz

alz — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:32:36 +0000

Hi Dan,

That’s great news! Glad to see you guys are still continually improving your service, all the best.

Comment on Where are people clicking? by Dan Zambonini

Dan Zambonini — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:12:11 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the write-up! One quick thing; you mention “statistics are (currently) restricted to the exact domain names”. You’ll be happy to know that, co-incidentally, we’re removing this restriction in a few hours, so you’ll be able to use as many sub-domains as you want in clickdensity accounts.

Thanks again,

Dan