Me and the world

mustaca.ro is finally alive

msorin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:50:33 +0000

I own mustaca.ro since a couple of years now… maybe 6 years ?
However, I didn’t use it so far because I couldn’t register a DNS record for it.
Now, with the help of my friends I was able to redirect it to mustaca.de

Also the emails sent to mustaca.ro are redirected to mustaca.de

Posted in General Tagged: mustaca.de, mustaca.ro

P vs NP

msorin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:15:48 +0000

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.”

Posted in General Tagged: ddj, p vs np, polynomial

New article in the Avira Techblog: The spam trend continues: more and more malware

msorin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:44:29 +0000

The spam trend continues: more and more malware

Posted in General Tagged: avira techblog, spam trends

Windows 7 and Free Antiviruses

msorin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:23:05 +0000

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 …

Posted in News

Changing the ISP for my website

msorin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:20:12 +0000

There will be interrupts today because I’ve moved my website from 1und1.de to Netbeat.

Posted in General Tagged: 1und1, interrupt, netbeat

New article in Avira Techblog: Malware-Spam with alleged OWA settings

msorin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:40:18 +0000

Malware-Spam with alleged OWA settings

Posted in General Tagged: Avira, avira techblog, malware, outlook web access, owa, phishing, spam

Google Wave – invitation received

msorin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:58:49 +0000

Got the invitation for Google Wave (http://ping.fm/gxgq6). Still trying how to use it. My Google user name is sorin.mustaca.
Everything still looks pretty simple developed out there.

Posted in General, News Tagged: google, google wave, wave

New Avira Techblog article: A brief look at some Twitter Spam

msorin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:05:13 +0000

A brief look at some Twitter Spam

Posted in News, Spam & Phishing Tagged: Avira

New Avira Techblog Article: High Risk Level Alert

msorin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:57:58 +0000

High Risk Level Alert

Posted in News, Spam & Phishing Tagged: avira techblog, risk level, stolen passwords, Techblog

Email-(in)Security using GnuPG for Windows and Outlook

msorin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:06:04 +0000

I usually do not start with a conclusion… But now I will.
Simply stay away from this dreadful software… !!!
It is simply buggy !

Outlook 2007 crashes almost at every signed email that this crappy software tries to display.

STAY AWAY FROM http://www.gpg4win.org/ at least until they fix these crashes !!!

Posted in General, News Tagged: gpg, gpg4win, outlook, pgp

Avert Labs — Malware “Experience” – DON’T

msorin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:44:24 +0000

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
You’ve often heard that the Internet is a dangerous place and you’ve probably read about threats such as botnets, keystroke loggers and drive-by installations of malware through rigged Web sites. But what is malware really? How do cybercriminals launch their malicious attacks? McAfee is offering you the chance to find out with the unique and exclusive McAfee Malware Experience.

Join experts from McAfee Avert Labs and have a chance to work with a Trojan horse, commandeer a botnet, install a rootkit and experience first hand how easy it is to modify websites to serve up malware. Of course this will all be done in the safe and closed environment, ensuring that what you experience first hand doesn’t actually go out onto the Internet. To sign up, contact Shiva Mandalam at shiva_mandalam@mcafee.com or 408.346.3866.

McAfee, do not consider that just by using a “safe environment” the problem doesn’t exist. Those guys who enjoy the feeling will repeat the experiment… maybe outside of the safe environment.

And then what ?

Posted in antivirus, News Tagged: course, mcafee, rootkit, teach malware

Avira Techblog: ZBot outbreak in form of IRS Phishing

msorin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:18:37 +0000

Avira Techblog: ZBot outbreak in form of IRS Phishing

Posted in News, Spam & Phishing

Virus Bulletin 2009 Conference Reports

msorin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:58:18 +0000

Day 1 : http://techblog.avira.com/2009/09/24/vb-conference-day-1/en/

Day 2 : http://techblog.avira.com/2009/09/25/vb-conference-day-2/en/

Day 3 : http://techblog.avira.com/2009/09/28/vb-conference-day-3/en/

Posted in antivirus, News, Spam & Phishing Tagged: geneva, report, virus bulletin conference 2009

New article in the Avira Techblog:The longest Nigerian Scam ever?

msorin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:36:57 +0000

New article in the Avira Techblog: The longest Nigerian Scam ever?

Posted in News, Spam & Phishing Tagged: Avira, avira techblog, nigerian scam

New article in the Avira Techblog:A fresh breeze in the Casino spam

msorin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:34:16 +0000

New article in the Avira Techblog: A fresh breeze in the Casino spam

Posted in General, News Tagged: avira techblog, casino, scam, spam

Avira’s Free AV is celebrating 10 years

msorin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:25:34 +0000

Quote from the Techblog:
“Amazing! Avira’s free antivirus solution, Avira AntiVir Personal available at our www.FreeAV.com web site, is now getting 10 years old! For ten years, we added an additional security layer around companies by protecting the employees personal computers from malware infections for free.

The free version always offered the latest antivirus techniques available, and the best detection rates and superb protection due to heuristics detections. For us that is a good reason to celebrate. For ten days our present to our customers is an additional runtime of 10 months if you buy a usual 1 years license of our premium products or the small business suite.

Happy birthday, FreeAV!
“

Posted in General, News Tagged: free av, free-av.com, personal

Bundling reloaded… now with Adobe & McAfee

msorin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:49:04 +0000

Did you update your Flash software in Firefox ?
I did …
And this is what i got:

Not very nice, Adobe…

Posted in antivirus, General, News Tagged: adobe, bundle, flash, flash updates, mcafee, security

Avira’s free version is the best

msorin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:11:27 +0000

Avira is the first choice of the PC World top of Free Antivirus Products:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/170674/free_antivirus_software.html

Posted in General Tagged: antivirus, avast, avg, Avira, free, free antivirus

New post in Avira Techblog: Spam through Yahoo Groups

msorin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:34:52 +0000

This time together with Dirk : Spam through Yahoo Groups

Posted in News, Spam & Phishing Tagged: avira te, avira techblog, groups, spam, yahoo

10 reasons why I hate MS Outlook

msorin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:12:43 +0000

1. It is crashing continuously because it is locked in some intensive I/O and the OS (yes, *their* own OS) is killing the application as being non responsive.

2. Lack of good plugins. In contrary to Thunderbird where there are thousand of plugins, the really good plugins for Outlook are very few.

3. Eats up a lot of memory. Currently, with only one Exchange account, the two instances I have (don’t ask me why I have 2) occupy each 78MB. However, I’ve seen 130 MB used by only one instance. I think that the 2. instance has to do with the Windows Mobile device I have.

4. It is unbelievable slow in retrieving mails. I have a lot of rules on the server side and none on the client side. This should make everything faster and not slower

5. Limited amount of rules on server and client side.

6. No real encryption solution with GNU PGP.
WinPGP is a big bullshit !!! Especially version 2.0.

7. Grouping message by thread simply sucks. It doesn’t display everything in a coherent form.

8. Searching is very, very slow.
And I have a laptop with 4GB RAM, Dual Core Duo 2.5 GHz. Very fast… to everything except Outlook.

9. Replying to HTML emails keeps them HTML despite the fact that I’ve configured everything to be plain text.

10. A Reply doesn’t prefix the email if it is HTML. Only if it is plain text.

And there could be other reasons … I am just stopping myself here.

For now…

Posted in News Tagged: exchange, microsoft, outlook