Tag Archives: virus

Google Adsense Serving Up Malware?

| Created: May 28th, 2009
Make Money Online 17 Comments

Tonight I was browsing the Internet, when my virus software notified me of a potential threat from openstat.ws. None of the websites open in Firefox had a link to this site in the source. After some investigation, it appears that the potentially malicious site is called by Google Adsense.

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Password Protecting The Wp-admin Folder

| Created: October 3rd, 2008
WordPress Hacks 64 Comments

I recently listened to the WordPress Podcast – Episode 44. Although it’s a couple of months old now, it was quite interesting and one issue really caught my eye ear: the security related question for Matt Mullenweg at around 1:13:30 of the podcast.

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BullGuard Resolves Customer Service Issue

| Created: June 23rd, 2008
General 20 Comments

In a recent post, I talked about poor customer service from BullGuard, the anti-virus software company. A relative of mine paid for their subscription to be renewed, but the money was lost and their protection was disabled.

I’m pleased to say that BullGuard have now resolved the situation satisfactorily and my relative is now happily using BullGuard once again. Continue reading

BullGuard – What A Load Of Bull!

| Created: June 2nd, 2008
General 23 Comments

In my last post I wrote about comment spam. Today, I’m writing about BullGuard, the anti-virus / spam software. Unfortunately, I’m not writing about BullGuard because of their software – I’m writing about them because one of my relatives lost their money when he tried to renew his subscription. Continue reading