Home computers full of different kinds of malware and viruses are today a great problem. They are not only a great problem for the owners, but they are also ruining the Internet experience for the rest of the Internet users. For the owner it’s a problem since a lot of these malwares sniffs the computer for interesting information such as credit card numbers, online bank information, login information for different sites and other personal information. Well, isn’t this just a problem for the owner? No! These hijacked computers are also used for spreading viruses and sending out spam. That way it may also become your problem. So what can we do to make the Internet a safer and better marketplace? Well, it’s just like that old saying that “nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something”. You can do your part by making sure your computer is free from malware and viruses. Thereby you’re doing yourself a favor at the same time as you’re doing your fellow Internet users a favor.
So how do you make sure your computer isn’t full of malware and viruses? There are many adware removers available, but one of the best softwares on the market today for detecting and removing malware is STOPzilla. With STOPzilla you can scan your computer for malware and remove it right away. STOPzilla can be used for detecting spyware, adware, pop-up ads, phishing attacks, hijackers, rootkits, trojans, bots, drive-by downloads, rogue programs, messenger service ads, keyloggers, dialers and much more. Download the latest version of STOPzilla today and do your part in making the Internet a cleaner place! 
May 5th, 2008
Today I’ve launched a new site! It’s an information site about intellectual property rights on the Internet. Nowadays there are a lot of people piggybacking on other companies trademarks. Many trademark owners simply don’t know about it or don’t know what they can do about it. I hope that my new site will help all trademark owners to realize how these cybersquatters piggyback on their trademark and that they might have to take legal actions to get rid of the squatters.
You’ll also find information about how you can monetize on domain names. Just because you monetize on a domain name doesn’t mean you’re a cybersquatter. My new site is called Infringement.biz and you can find it here.
February 26th, 2007
Nowadays it’s possible to do almost anything online. Some people just use the Internet for mailing, while others pay their bills, buy groceries, trade stocks and much much more. Hey, some people even order funerals online! Most of the sites we use wants us to become a registered user by creating an account. While creating accounts at all these websites, many people tend to use the same password over and over again. Like it wasn’t bad enough that they use the same password everywhere, they also use passwords that are easy to guess.
So how do you know if you’re using bad passwords? I’ll show you some example of bad passwords and explain why they are bad.
- computer - It’s a dictionary word
- amanda - It’s a common personal name
- buster - It’s a common name for a pet
- password - It’s easy to guess
- asdfg - It’s a sequence of adjacent letters on the keyboard
You might also have noticed that all these suggestions of bad passwords only contained lower case letters and none of them contained any digits. If you have a password of 5 letters, all lower case, then there are almost 12 million (26^5) different combinations. That might sound like a lot of combinations, but if you’ve got a computer with a 3GHz processor and a brute force password generator it can generate about 3 million passwords per second. Your five letter password would then take four seconds to break. Now lets say that you use lower case letters, upper case letters and digits in your five character password. Then we get a total of 62 different characters which give us around 916 million (62^5) different. If we use this password instead of the other one it’ll take around five minutes to break it. As you can see we still have a bad password. Better than the first one, but still bad.
What we need to do here is simply to increase the length of the password. If we increase the password length to 8 we will get almost 220,000 billion (62^8) combinations. It would then take that computer around 7 million years to generate all the possible combinations. All these calculations are based on a password containing purely random characters.
If you, like most people, have a password that matches one of the earlier examples of bad ones, like a dictionary word, then you can guess how fast a computer will break your password.
Generate a random password
Just to make things a little easier for you I’ve made a password generator that will generate a more secure password for you. The generated password is 8-12 characters long and consists of lower case letters, upper case letters and digits. Simply press the generate button and a random password will be generated for you.
January 26th, 2007
The Securistar blog is now up and running as you can see. So what’s this Securistar-thingy all about? Well, to be honest I’m still in the planning phase. I have big plans for this site and I hope that the result will be of interest and use also for others than myself. If you have some suggestions or just some encouraging comments - feel free to contact me.
I’ll update the blog with some more info further on.. or perhaps I should say when the planning phase has given some results 
Take care!
January 25th, 2007