Matias Vangsnes

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Enve Creative Develops WordPress Website for 10 West Self Storage

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

Enve Creative has launched a search engine optimized WordPress and HTML5 website for 10 West Self Storage of Morris, Connecticut. Torrington, Connecticut (PRWEB) July 31, 2012 Enve Creative has launched a search engine optimized WordPress and HTML5 website at http://10westselfstorage.com for 10 West Self Storage. 10 West Self Storage offers climate-controlled self-storage units and lockers, [...]

OSCON 2012: The Open-Source Creative Engine Drives the Economy

Friday, July 20th, 2012

PORTLAND, Ore.—The open-source community creates tremendous value for the U.S. economy, driving small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and empowering entrepreneurs, according to a top open-source supporter. At the O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2012 (OSCON) here, Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media, exhorted open-source developers to “work on stuff that matters” and to create more value [...]

The Internet Apocalypse That Wasn’t

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

So much for the Internet apocalypse. Several security experts and media reports predicted that Monday, July 9, would be remembered as the day millions lost their Internet connections — and possibly their livelihoods. Those concerns did not play out. At 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation pulled the plug on [...]

A sober-minded guide to Internet ‘Doomsday’

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

(CNN) — It’s been impossible to go online or turn on a TV Monday without seeing all the breathless chatter about the “Doomsday” for the Internet, when hundreds of thousands of people were expected to abruptly lose their connection to the world’s computer brain. But what caused the “Malware Monday” panic, and is it really [...]

A sober-minded guide to Internet ‘Doomsday’

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

(CNN) — It’s been impossible to go online or turn on a TV Monday without seeing all the breathless chatter about the “Doomsday” for the Internet, when hundreds of thousands of people were expected to abruptly lose their connection to the world’s computer brain. But what caused the “Malware Monday” panic, and is it really [...]

DNS Changer Malware may have affected 47,000 Americans

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

The FBI finally shut off servers Monday morning that at one point supported millions of users infected by the DNS Changer Malware, leaving as many as 47,000 Americans disconnected from the Internet. Though the FBI with the help of various organizations and companies was able to reduce the number of infected computers from 4 million to [...]

DNS Changer Malware may have affected 47,000 Americans

Monday, July 9th, 2012

The FBI finally shut off servers Monday morning that at one point supported millions of users infected by the DNS Changer Malware, leaving as many as 47,000 Americans disconnected from the Internet. Though the FBI with the help of various organizations and companies was able to reduce the number of infected computers from 4 million to [...]

How to test your computer for DNS Changer Malware

Saturday, July 7th, 2012

As many as 64,000 Americans’ computers may still be infected by malware that will cause them to lose Internet service Monday, so make sure you aren’t among those affected if you haven’t already. The problem is a result of a large online advertising scam that took over more than 4 million computers around the world. [...]

How to test your computer for DNS Changer Malware

Saturday, July 7th, 2012

As many as 64,000 Americans’ computers may still be infected by malware that will cause them to lose Internet service Monday, so make sure you aren’t among those affected if you haven’t already. The problem is a result of a large online advertising scam that took over more than 4 million computers around the world. [...]

How to Check If You’ll Lose Internet Monday

Saturday, July 7th, 2012

Come Monday somewhere between 200,000 and 500,000 computers won’t be able to get onto the Interwebs because of some complicated expiration of FBI protection of DNS malware. Don’t let that be you. We know, a world without Internet — especially for we Internet creatures — would not only render us homeless, but useless. We’d rather have you all [...]

DNSChanger’ Malware Could Strand Thousands When Domains Go Dark on Monday

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

Tens of thousands of U.S. internet users could be left in the digital dark on Monday when the FBI pulls the plug on domains related to the DNSChanger malware. Computers belonging to an estimated 64,000 users in the United States, and an additional 200,000 users outside the United States, are still infected with the malware, [...]

July 9th Could Be Doomsday for DNSChanger Virus Victims

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

Maybe it’s a reminder, maybe it’s news to you. Either way, you probably want to go ahead and check to make sure you don’t get unceremoniously booted from the Internet come July 9th. Thousands of computers worldwide are still estimated to be infected with the DNSChanger virus, which reroutes web traffic on infected computers to [...]

Thousands could lose internet access July 9 due to virus

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

On July 9, thousands of Canadians and hundreds of thousands of people worldwide could be without access to the internet after the FBI shuts down temporary DNS servers used to assist victims of a massive internet fraud ring. All computers that still use these servers will meet a virtual brick wall on July 9 and [...]

Switching email from Windows to Mac

Wednesday, June 27th, 2012

Q. I’m switching computers from a Windows Vista PC to a Macintosh, and I need to move my emails from Microsoft Windows Mail to the Mac. I want to use a flash drive to transfer the emails, but I’ve been having problems trying to export or copy the files from Windows Mail. Any thoughts? Cyndy [...]

Internet blackout looms for 300K DNSChanger-infected computers

Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

Internet blackout looms for 300K DNSChanger-infected computers By William Jackson Jun 20, 2012 Less than three weeks before the deadline for taking clean DNSChanger servers offline for good hundreds of thousands of computers still are using the servers for DNS queries and face the risk of being cut off from the Internet July 9. The [...]

Red Hat Clarifies Doubts Over UEFI Secure Boot Solution

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) secure boot is a major worry for GNU/Linux user as it will make it impossible for them to install their favourite distro on hardware with secure boot. Microsoft is pushing for secure boot with Windows 8 which is slated to be out within a year. The restrictions Microsoft is pushing [...]

Have you checked your PC for DNSChanger? The clock is ticking.

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

Have you checked your PC for DNSChanger? The clock is ticking. By Kevin McCaney May 14, 2012 Tens of thousands of computers in the United States are still infected with DNSChanger and, if you haven’t checked, yours could be one of them. And if your computer is infected, you could be effectively cut off from [...]

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Saturday, May 12th, 2012

PRLog (Press Release) – May 11, 2012 – Panda Premium WordPress Themes May 2012 Coupon Codes Coupon Code: “MAYOFF“ Panda Premium WordPress TopBusiness Theme TopBusiness is an advanced WordPress Theme with BuddyPress compatibility. You can enhance page functionality and make it more advanced without editing source files. It’s easy to tweak a style, set the [...]

DNS Changer Virus May Attack 20,000 Devices in UK

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

And even more worldwide The “DNS Changer” malware, one of the most widespread viruses at the moment, could attack more than 350,000 computers worldwide on 9th July, with a big portion of the infected being from the UK. The FBI has stated that on the fated day, approximately a half of million devices could lose [...]

FBI, working group reboot effort to rid computers of DNSChanger

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

FBI, working group reboot effort to rid computers of DNSChanger By Kevin McCaney Apr 24, 2012 The FBI and a working group of security experts have relaunched their campaign to rid computers of the DNSChanger malware that still threatens to cut hundreds of thousands of users off from the Internet in July. The ad hoc [...]

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