Monthly Archives: April 2013
Premium VPN service giveaway
Who is concerned for his(her) privacy knows that the best protection out there is to use a VPN(Virtual Private Network) service. The Internet can be a veritable minefield for data theft and other attacks by hackers these days. Protecting your online privacy just isn’t as easy as it used to be. To meet the increasing challenges of identity theft in the Internet age, Kepard a relatively new but strong company offers the best VPN service to help protect your computer from hackers and give you the peace of mind you need in your work, communication, and everyday web surfing. Their service offers: Up to 256 Bit Encryption Unlimited traffic Unrestricted speeds Offshore service …
How to remove Qvo6.com “virus”
malavida.com is a spanish website offering freeware for downloading. The problem with it is that like many other websites offering software for downloading, it enforces you to download first their “downloader”, the old trick used to install additional and potentially undesirable software in your computer. If you check these days and try to download a freeware from their website, an executable of 159 KB with the name of the original application is downloaded first instead of the desired application, for example: skype-windows-downloader.exe cpu-z-windows-downloader.exe nero-windows-downloader.exe ares-windows-downloader.exe and so on. Let’s run the downloader in a sandbox and see what is the additional software installed. The screens tell the story: … … … …
CPU-Z, the free unwanted package
CPU-Z from CPUID is a very popular freeware program that gathers and display information about your installed hardware like details of CPU, motherboard, installed RAM memory, voltages and so on. On CPUID website you can find multiple download links of the same product, CPU-Z version 1.63, as an installation file containing both 32 and 64 bits versions or as a standalone executable either for 32 or 64 bits, the question is why to use an installation file when the program can run as a standalone executable so I’ve extracted the components of the installation file to see what it contains. I’ve used a X-UniExtract 1.6.1 rev4, a very good tool for extracting …
