Monthly Archives: July 2009

During the recent months, spam originating from China has been hitting the mailboxes of users from all over the world. One interesting fact is that this latest wave of spam is constructed differently from its predecessors. What makes this spam …

Our rogue software researcher Patrick (last name withheld to protect the innocent) goes to some strange places on the Internet pretty much on a daily basis. Recently he drew our attention to some interesting URL obfuscation: vvindows.com and google-rnail.com. Look …

@GFISoftware has hit another milestone on Twitter with over 5,000 followers keeping themselves up-to-date on all the latest news in web security, email management, network security and managed services and all other GFI Software-related events. Our Twitter account is kept active …

Patrick found a new online scare tactic page being used for the SystemSecurity rogue: Blue screen… clever. Read about SystemSecurity rogue in the Sunbelt Rogue Blog here. Tom Kelchner

I am very pleased to announce today two important developments for GFI Software. The first is that HoundDog Technology Ltd, a leading remote monitoring and management company in the UK, has joined the GFI family. HoundDog provides Managed Service Providers …

At least one marketing guru is pushing his fellow professionals to get past their inertia and start using social media more imaginatively. That imaginative use of sites like Facebook and Twitter by marketers also is starting to attract the attention …

We’ve been offered new borns, children and brothers; read tons of ‘poems’ about GFI and PS3s and also had some tweeters try to pull at our heart strings; but one person in particular proved to us just how much he really wanted …

For those who need to explore the intricacies of authentication mechanisms that are available on Windows operating systems, I would like to make a stop at Windows Digest authentication and make a few comments about how it works (or doesn’t). …

Microsoft is releasing two out-of-band updates on Tuesday. It’s always big news when MS does an out-of-band update, because it is a major amount of work for them to test against all the different operating systems, change their normal release …

Another excellent article has been posted by Paul Graham, a must-read writer on technology, startups and the technology business. This time, about meetings, managers and makers: One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they’re on a different type …