Wow! We have received an overwhelming response and interest in the Ad-Aware 2007 Beta. Nearly 50,000 people had already downloaded the Beta in a matter of hours after release. Since we currently have 127,000 registered beta testers, we realize there are a number of you out there who still need to download the Beta.
101,683. That's how many people have registered as Ad-Aware 2007 beta testers - and we are so excited!
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear CastleCops, happy birthday to you!
We don't like to brag. OK, maybe sometimes, only when it's really, really necessary.
The public beta for Ad-Aware 2007 is still a few weeks away and we already have more than 50,000 people signed up, eagerly awaiting the chance to test it.
Thank you to all those who have registered and to those who plan on registering. We look forward to getting your feedback. You will be helping create the final product trusted by hundreds of millions of computer users around the world.
People often ask us, "So how much snow do you have over there? Isn't it really cold with lots of snow all of the time?"
Well, we are actually on the west coast of Sweden near Denmark, so we are not as far north as people think. We only get a really good snow 3-4 times each winter. Our climate is like that of Seattle, Washington, in the United States - gray and rainy (sorry for the stereotype, Seattle)!
We really are speechless. Honored. Humbled.
According to Google Earth, the Kingdom of Norway has now found itself smack-dab in the middle of the Kingdom of Sweden (see the photo)!
Johan Kinnander, the manager of Google's Scandinavian branch, only had this to say. "Jag måste kolla upp det här innan jag kan lämna någon kommentar" (translation: I must check on this before I can comment.)
How would you feel about starting your day with a nice cup of strong Swedish coffee, and a view like this out over Gothenburgs harbor?
We love it too!
You don't always need to be at the top of a skyscraper to have a fantastic view of a city. We're pretty happy with our perch on the 8th floor of "The Lipstick," as our building is commonly called in Swedish.
Ever wonder who is behind those spam mails that flood our inboxes?
Meet Alex "Blood" Polyakov, or a few of his other aliases, who tops off the Spamhaus stats as the world's most prolific spammer. The word unsavory does not begin to describe this Ukrainian who operates a large spam operation, including a child-porn spam ring, controlled through a massive botnet of infected PCs.
This is cool stuff. We have just released a special edition of the Definition File updates with 5,567 fake codec variants. This is cool stuff!
You won't get this one anywhere else. These fake codecs have been flooding cyberspace, and we're taking a stab at them. They have been mercilessly picking up victims and tossing them aside without a second thought. They infect, regurgitate, infect again, regurgitate, infect again, and so on, and so on.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has brought on another win for the good guys in the battle against spyware.
ERG Ventures, along with one of its affiliates, was ordered by a U.S. district court to stop distributing what the FTC says is deceptive and unfair software downloads. They will also be requesting that the operation give up any ill-gotten gains.
We use passwords for everything: logging on to our computers, using our cell phones, doing our banking, accessing our online accounts...
Here's some food for thought: which came first, the proliferation of passwords to secure our technology-centered lives, or the rampant use of little yellow Post-it notes, cluttering all of our desktops or jammed into our wallets?
Todays security news: Microsoft has released a new Security Advisory based on a vulnerability in part of the Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0, which could allow for remote code execution. The vulnerability is caused by an error in XMLHTTP 4.0 ActiveX Control.
Malicious hackers have reportedly already begun to exploit the flaw, which has not yet been patched.
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