The World Wide Web supposed to be an international network. Hence “the” and “world” in it. With exception of the Great Chinese firewall anybody in the world could see any information on any website. And, theoretically, anybody could buy any product from any website. I do understand why e-shops, selling real goods like books, clothes [...]
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Antivirus Direct – Information overload
When I started the first version of antivirusdirect.info , I tried to represent the data in the minimalistic way. The less steps user needs to perform to get all the information, required for the analysis – the better. One page per product sounded like a good idea. Well, I didn’t think there are so many antivirus vendors [...]
New project: Antivirus Direct
April 18th, 2011 by Serguei Alleko in eCommerce, Information Technologies, IT Security | No Comments »
I’ve spend the last 4 years working for different antivirus vendors (Kaspersky and Trustport) helping consumers to buy and renew their antiviruses online. The online sales industry of antiviruses is a bit strange. Vendors are still mostly oriented on retail market (well, they’ve build their empires based on brick-and-mortar retail sales). And online shops are [...]
Free Anti-Viruses Industry
October 3rd, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in eCommerce, Information Technologies, IT Security | No Comments »
A couple of days ago Microsoft came with a new free Anti-Virus product – Microsoft Security Essentials I will not comment on Microsoft ability to create security products, my opinion could be based of course. I’d like to write a bit about the whole idea of those Free Anti-Virus. Currently it’s not just a GNU-like [...]
Privacy and identity theft via webmail
Already many years Identity theft considered as a crime in USA and EU countries. Of course, it’s not a act of stealing, which is prosecuted, identity can not be stolen, just copied. It’s the act of using this information for criminal purposes, like obtaining credit, writing cheques, paying with credit card via Internet, etc. Free email [...]
Real Virus attack on corporate network
January 20th, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in IT Security | No Comments »
I’ve been working for many years in a anti-virus company. Of course my view on computer viruses and incidents is biased, but this angle could be interesting anyway. Currently the anti-virus coverage within corporate networks is close to 100%. Within home users it’s estimated from 70% to 90%. How exactly does infeactions happen in real [...]
