Crossroads Realty Archive

Rogue Anti-Virus is Spreading Again!


In the past week alone, I have cleaned more computers infected with fake or “rogue” anti-virus programs, than I have in the first half of 2009.  These programs sneak onto your computer with misinformation and, in some cases, are known to cause havoc.  After the fake anti-virus shows you a list of fake infections, it [...]

Trulia Background Info


The following is some background info on Trulia that I have compiled. Over the last few years, Trulia has become a very popular national housing search website.  Due to some outstanding SEO work, Trulia ranks on the first page of Google for just about any township when I search for real estate.
Trulia, Inc. (www.trulia.com),
a U.S. [...]

Animoto Reaches the 1 Year mark


Animoto launched out of beta and Celebrated it’s first anniversary on Tuesday, August 26th 2008. Over the last year, Animoto has come a long way developing it’s MTV style slideshow technology. Animoto has developed many new features since I last wrote about their MP4 download feature back in December of last year:

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Rogue Anti-Virus: UPDATE


This is a quick update to my previous article on fraudulent anti-virus.
If you happened to get infected with one of these programs, I have found a new scanner that will actually get rid of it for you.  Now…  I typically scan with Symantec AV Corp, AdAware, and Spybot…  Although, none of these were able to [...]

Rogue Anti-Virus is Taking Over


Over the last year or so, I am running into more and more computers that have been infected with rogue anti-virus software. Now spreading from hundreds of different websites based in various foreign countries, these fraudulant anti-virus programs are starting to take over.