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Microsoft Offers $250,000 for Rustock Botnet Information

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Microsoft announced yesterday on a Russian newspaper for a reward of $250,000 to whoever gives an information for the arrest and conviction of Rustock Botnet individuals who are involved. The botnet who infected over 1.6M IP addresses on March 2011 was a big threat to everyone and Microsoft focused on taking it down (Operation b107) and reduced 56.12% from March to June 2011.

I just think these guys are another bunch of teenagers who live on their garage with a computer and an internet just like the kid who took down amazon or ebay with a DDoS attack. But these guys are much more into money than fun. They use their infected computers to send spam emails for viagra products or anything they would earn money from any products.


Rustock was coded so good that top anti-viruses won’t even notice the trojan’s arrival. It just sits down on your PC for a couple of days (more…)

Review: WebHostingWorld.net *POOR*

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I’ve been with this webhost for about one year+ I think. My first year was good, I didn’t have that much downtime for my blog. But this year was absolutely UNSTABLE! Everyday my blog goes DOWN several times. How would you expect customers would react to that? Take a look at these emails, just look at the date and time on the right side:

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And their chat support is absurd! They keep on telling me (more…)

HowTo: Only See Status Updates on Facebook News Feed

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Have you ever tired of scrolling down and clicking the “Older Posts” link just to see your friends’ Status Updates instead of applications that you don’t even want to see flooding your News Feed?

Well, it’s very simple and I’m going to teach you how!

If you want to filter your news feed to see only Status Updates, just follow these instructions:

Step 1: Click the Top News drop down box on the right side of your News Feed.


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